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- noun Plural form of
burgomaster .
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Examples
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Two others were called burgomasters, and five others were called schepens.
The Story of Manhattan Charles Hemstreet
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As European prices for the dramatic flowers rose in the 1630s, many burgomasters — local mayors — started to invest in the bulbs.
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With prices having fallen in the fall, leveraged burgomasters were tied into paying above-market prices for bulbs to be delivered in the spring.
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The sudden glut caused prices to fall, and Dutch burgomasters began losing money.
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Commonwealth, in the book of his Laws, which no city ever yet received, fed his fancy by making many edicts to his airy burgomasters, which they who otherwise admire him wish had been rather buried and excused in the genial cups of an Academic night sitting.
Areopagitica 2007
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Dutch burgomasters, phlegmatic now as when in life, looked down pallid and unconcerned on the chaos of past ages below them.
The Magic Skin 2007
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Commonwealth, in the book of his Laws, which no city ever yet received, fed his fancy by making many edicts to his airy burgomasters, which they who otherwise admire him wish had been rather buried and excused in the genial cups of an Academic night sitting.
Areopagitica 2007
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Ultimately, the burgomasters succeeded in ironing out a deal whereby the obligation to purchase bulbs at a fixed price would be suddenly converted into an opportunity to do so.
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When tulip prices started to rise in the 1630s, many Dutch burgomasters the local mayors started to invest in tulip bulbs.
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It just so happens that a side benefit of this mandatory infusion of cash into the tulip markets is a means for the wealthy burgomasters in general otherwise known as CEOs and stock option holders to sell their bulbs before they rot.
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