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assemblyman en · NOUN

Etymology

From assembly + -man.

Meanings

1. A male member of an assembly.
2. A member of the lower house of certain US state legislatures.
   • Having just elected to return the arms in question to their Catholic owners, Maryland's assemblymen were not about to authorize Nicholson's order to reconfiscate the arms and risk stirring up the anger of the colony's Catholics. 2012, Maura Jane Farrelly, Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity, →ISBN:
   • "There is clearly a systemic problem," said Richard L. Brodsky, a Westchester assemblyman, who is sponsoring a bill to require that mercury gauges be replaced with nonmercury alternatives. 2000 October 8, Robert Worth, “HEALTH; A Little-Known Threat”, in The New York Times:
   • Thomas P. DiNapoli, a Nassau County assemblyman also interested in the job, said he would voluntarily limit those contributions to $10,000, but said that eliminating them altogether would make it unduly hard for the nonwealthy to run for the office. 2007 January 28, Nicholas Confessore, “Ex-Comptrollers Endured Controversy Themselves”, in The New York Times:

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