"board of supervisors" meaning in English

See board of supervisors in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: boards of supervisors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|boards of supervisors|head=board of supervisors}} board of supervisors (plural boards of supervisors)
  1. (US) The elected governing body of a county in certain states, which often has executive as well as legislative powers Wikipedia link: board of supervisors Tags: US Categories (topical): Government
    Sense id: en-board_of_supervisors-en-noun-V2UiG1P5 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "boards of supervisors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "boards of supervisors",
        "head": "board of supervisors"
      },
      "expansion": "board of supervisors (plural boards of supervisors)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Government",
          "orig": "en:Government",
          "parents": [
            "Politics",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The elected governing body of a county in certain states, which often has executive as well as legislative powers"
      ],
      "id": "en-board_of_supervisors-en-noun-V2UiG1P5",
      "links": [
        [
          "executive",
          "executive"
        ],
        [
          "legislative",
          "legislative"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) The elected governing body of a county in certain states, which often has executive as well as legislative powers"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "board of supervisors"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "board of supervisors"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "boards of supervisors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "boards of supervisors",
        "head": "board of supervisors"
      },
      "expansion": "board of supervisors (plural boards of supervisors)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Government"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The elected governing body of a county in certain states, which often has executive as well as legislative powers"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "executive",
          "executive"
        ],
        [
          "legislative",
          "legislative"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) The elected governing body of a county in certain states, which often has executive as well as legislative powers"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "board of supervisors"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "board of supervisors"
}

Download raw JSONL data for board of supervisors meaning in English (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.