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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

mayorless en · ADJ

Etymology

From mayor + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a mayor.
    • The capital had been left mayorless, administered by a government‐appointed prefect who had no political reason to heed the virtually powerless city council, largely because French heads of state from Napoleon to de Gaulle feared that a mayor of Paris would become an instant challenger for national power. 1977 June 3, James F. Clarity, “Mayoral Race In Paris Shows Chaos Leading”, in The New York Times: