mayoralty
Americannoun
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mayoralties
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mayoralty
1350–1400; mayor + -al 1 + -ty 2; replacing Middle English mairaltee < Middle French mairalte
Example Sentences
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“Something we have seen throughout his mayoralty is that rather than pulling back from his rhetoric, he has leaned in to it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
"I hope he wins, but we then tip straight into the Manchester mayoralty by-election… so we're all going to have to focus on that."
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
His recent successors failed to learn the lessons of the great reformist mayoralty of the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
His mayoralty also offers today’s floundering New York the fundamental lesson that good government can make a city flourish, while bad government impairs it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
But the offices of Postmaster and First Shirriff were attached to the mayoralty, so that he managed both the Messenger Service and the Watch.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The new mayoralties in Greater Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, Hampshire and the Solent, and Sussex and Brighton will instead be contested in 2028.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
The 34-year-old candidate praised elements of the mayoralties of the centrist Bloomberg and progressive former mayor Bill DeBlasio, vowing to "assess things on their merits" rather than be ideological.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2025
Regional unrest has intensified following April elections that the Serbs boycotted, narrowing the turnout to 3.5%, leaving victory in four Serb-majority mayoralties to ethnic Albanian candidates.
From Reuters ● May 31, 2023
At its best, participating as a bloc, the opposition won six governorships and 76 mayoralties in 2008 and 2013, respectively.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
But there were no traditional mayoralties to keep these two young hearts asunder.
From Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne
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