selectman

English

Etymology

select +‎ -man

Noun

selectman (plural selectmen)

1. (US) Any of a board of municipal officers elected to manage some New England towns.
   • 2008, Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems:

     Every selectman in the state of New Hampshire seems to be positive that growth in a town will lower taxes, but if you plot growth rates against tax rates, you find a scatter as random as the stars in a New Hampshire winter sky.

Coordinate terms

• selectwoman
• selectperson, selectpeople