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mayoralty

noun

may·​or·​al·​ty ˈmā-ə-rəl-tē How to pronounce mayoralty (audio)
ˈmer-əl-
: the office or term of office of a mayor

Example Sentences

During her mayoralty, the mayor greatly improved the city. He won the mayoralty in the last two elections.
Recent Examples on the Web The mayor is the first to admit that his ability to address crime will define his mayoralty. New York Times, 15 July 2022 Even more damning was a lengthy public letter to Johnson issued by Jesse Norman, a Conservative M.P. and former minister who had supported the Prime Minister for fifteen years, first for the London mayoralty and then for his current post. John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022 Kishimoto, an environmental activist who worked at Dutch research organization The Transnational Institute prior to running for the mayoralty, lived in Japan for the first 25 years of her life. Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 22 June 2022 Despite the success of Mr. de Blasio’s major initiatives — universal prekindergarten, paid sick leave — the hallmark of his mayoralty was his talent for alienating people who were inclined to like him and largely agreed with his policymaking. New York Times, 27 May 2022 Not long after winning New York City’s Democratic primary, Eric Adams had a quick answer to the question of how his potential mayoralty should be judged. New York Times, 17 Jan. 2022 The irony of course is that this is all unfolding in the waning days of a mayoralty that had committed itself above all to recognizing the unrecognized. New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021 Violent crime trended down in New York City for 28 years beginning with the last two of David Dinkins’s term as mayor, through the Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg years, and for the first six years of Bill de Blasio’s mayoralty. WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021 Now come new issues of crime and policing, with Biden making a public show of appearing alongside New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer who is staking his mayoralty on cracking down on crime. Rick Klein, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English mairaltee, from Anglo-French mairalté, from maire

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of mayoralty was in the 14th century

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