Definition of mayoralty in English:
mayoralty
nounPlural mayoralties ˈmɛːr(ə)ltiˈmeɪərəlti
1The office or position of mayor.
the party failed to win the mayoralty
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- The Taipei mayoralty has always been a springboard for higher political office.
- If none of the councillors win the mayoralty then three will go.
- Throwing him out of the party tore London Labour apart, cost us the mayoralty and on the positive side, showed what the limits were for the left.
- The public input portion of Monday's debate kicked off with criticism from two failed mayoralty candidates who ran for office in November's election.
- His deeper political reason for calling lay in his design to become a candidate for the mayoralty position in Oakland, California.
- He wanted the newly powerful mayoralty that Fitzgerald had.
- Under the amendment, the 309 mayoralties of townships and county municipalities would become appointed positions and part of the bureaucracy under county and provincial municipal governments.
- In 1936, Wick mounted an odd campaign for Portland's mayoralty.
- For one thing, those close to him insist he wants no part of Toronto's mayoralty.
- This battle between mayoralty and state legislature would rise again as future Irish mayors struggled to affirm their power as Boston's chief executive.
- Positions such as mayoralties are not the property of certain parties to be carved up between them; they're the property of the people.
- While they guarantee all of the top jobs - including the mayoralty - to members of certain political parties, equally they deny others the signal honour of wearing the chain of office.
- They would all willingly forfeit any hope to win the mayoralty rather than make such a class appeal.
- The current proposal is for a dedicated tax to be added to the already-bloated cost of London's mayoralty.
- 1.1 A mayor's term of office.
the law was passed during his mayoralty
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- Your mayoralty has been from start ‘till now a disaster in the making.
- The city added 430,000 new jobs during his mayoralty - Gotham's greatest job growth ever.
- He purchased entrance to the franchise in 1350, at the beginning of Robert's first mayoralty.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French mairalte, from maire (see mayor).