mayoralty

[mey-er-uhl-tee, mair-uhl-]

noun

plural

mayoralties 

1. the office or tenure of a mayor.

mayoralty

/ ˈmɛərəltɪ /

noun

1. the office or term of office of a mayor

Word History and Origins

Origin of mayoralty¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mayoralty¹

C14: from Old French mairalté

Example Sentences

Soon, he teamed up with Gennady Timchenko, a former Soviet trade official who knew Putin from St. Petersburg, where the future president worked in the mayoralty.

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Promises to improve the affordability of housing or anything else never come to fruition during these mayoralties.

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

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Yet others question whether anything like a Mamdani mayoralty would really provoke millionaires and billionaires to decamp.

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On 17 February 2003, motorists had to pay a charge to drive in central London for the first time, under the mayoralty of Ken Livingstone.

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