Definitions

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a councilman or councilwoman, particularly to the district they represent.

Etymologies

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councilman +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • The city had a policy of councilmanic courtesy that allowed individual members to grant zoning variances within their districts.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • The city had a policy of councilmanic courtesy that allowed individual members to grant zoning variances within their districts.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • The city had a policy of councilmanic courtesy that allowed individual members to grant zoning variances within their districts.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • The city had a policy of councilmanic courtesy that allowed individual members to grant zoning variances within their districts.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • Is Harris the councilmanic lynchpin to get it realized?

    Greg Harris Running For Council Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • But as fun to say as councilmanic is, the city of Seattle is racking up quite a bit of it.

    Archive 2005-03-20 2005

  • Before any one of them could reasonably protest, before it could decide that it was willing to pay a very great deal to have the suburb adjacent to its particular territory left free, before it could organize a legal fight, councilmanic ordinances were introduced giving the applying company what it sought; and after a single reading in each case and one open hearing, as the law compelled, they were almost unanimously passed.

    The Titan 2004

  • He was depending upon a councilmanic majority at least.

    The Titan 2004

  • During the current term it has thus far declined to review a lower court decision rejecting a challenge by white voters to a majority black councilmanic district in

    The Supreme Court's Recent Redistricting Decisions: Change of Heart or Lack of Interest? 2000

  • Already arrangements were being completed to move the paper to Pomona, where the mayor and councilmanic offices also intended to continue.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

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