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mayoralty

American  
[mey-er-uhl-tee, mair-uhl-] / ˈmeɪ ər əl ti, ˈmɛər əl- /

noun

mayoralties plural
  1. the office or tenure of a mayor.


mayoralty British  
/ ˈmɛərəltɪ /

noun

  1. the office or term of office of a mayor

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of mayoralty

1350–1400; mayor + -al 1 + -ty 2; replacing Middle English mairaltee < Middle French mairalte

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Some economists also point to the Bee Network of buses which brought the system under control of the mayoralty, and the encouragement of private sector investment in Manchester city centre.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

Devolution has helped to deliver this record on housing because the Greater Manchester mayoralty is empowered to set the city-region's housing strategy, direct housing investment funding and co-ordinate affordable housing programmes.

From BBC Jun. 29, 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

His recent successors failed to learn the lessons of the great reformist mayoralty of the 1990s.

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 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

In the 2024 local elections, his party won more than 500 mayoralties across Brazil.

From BBC Sep. 12, 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 Le Gallienne, Richard

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