"selectman" meaning in All languages combined

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        "2": "select",
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      },
      "expansion": "select + -man",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From select + -man.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "selectmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "selectman (plural selectmen)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "selectwoman"
        },
        {
          "word": "selectperson"
        },
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        }
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems:",
          "text": "Every selectman in the state of New Hampshire seems to be positive that growth in a town will lower taxes, but if you plot growth rates against tax rates, you find a scatter as random as the stars in a New Hampshire winter sky.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 4, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The New England […] town had its own government: a group of selectmen elected by the adult male members of the church. The selectmen acted as a plural executive, while the town’s eligible voters gathered for town meetings and functioned as a miniature parliament.",
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        "Any of a board of municipal officers elected to manage some New England towns."
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        "(US) Any of a board of municipal officers elected to manage some New England towns."
      ],
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From select + -man.",
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    {
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "Every selectman in the state of New Hampshire seems to be positive that growth in a town will lower taxes, but if you plot growth rates against tax rates, you find a scatter as random as the stars in a New Hampshire winter sky.",
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        },
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