county commissioner

noun

1. a member of a U.S. county board overseeing the collection and disbursement of funds and other affairs of the county.

Word History and Origins

Origin of county commissioner¹

First recorded in 1680–90

Example Sentences

Board chair Jim Gibson, who is also a Clark County commissioner, agreed the project is appropriately regulated.

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Posobiec zeroed in on his parents’ Democratic-leaning county, falsely accusing a Montgomery County commissioner of voting illegally.

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Scott — a county commissioner and state lawmaker in Oregon — inherited the Riggs’ ranch in Smith River after their deaths and moved onto it with his wife, Nettie, and Dock.

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Kiambu County Commissioner Henry Wafula said four people on the plane were killed, including doctors, nurses and the pilot - as well as another two people on the ground, while two others were seriously injured.

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James Gatluak Lew, Nasir county commissioner, told the BBC that state forces and their allies had carried out "chemical bombardments".

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