ayuntamiento

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  1. In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in a city or town; a town council, usually composed of alcaldes, regidors, and other municipal officers.

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  • He defended in criminal cases of theft, wrote mortgages, accepted debts for clients in every form from cash to oxen, wrote petitions, took depositions in estate settlements, prepared powers of attorney, acted for defendants in civil suits, made out warrants and subpoenas, and even wrote some official papers for the ayuntamiento . —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • He had done some translating of letters for the ayuntamiento by now. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • That only meant the more work for Travis, for the ayuntamiento there had to work in tandem with Smith, and its secretary was his secretary. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • Based on what they did know, Travis and the ayuntamiento were worried. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • He wrote in English, protesting disingenuously that “I do not know how to express myself” in Spanish, even though he had been translating documents for the ayuntamiento for all of the previous year. —  Three Roads to Alamo
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  1. Spanish, from Old Spanish ayuntar, from Middle Latin *adjunctare, from ad, to, + junctare (later Spanish juntar, join), from Latin jungere, past participle junctus, join: see join. Cf. junta.
 

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