mayorless en · ADJ
Etymology
From mayor + -less.
Meanings
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(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: