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nonaldermanic en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + aldermanic.

Meanings

1. Not aldermanic; Not being or involving an alderman.
   • As nonaldermanic members were, naturally, less informed concerning the problems with which the commission was concerned than were the aldermanic members, the chairman called a number of "seminar meetings" for the nonaldermanic members alone. 1954, Chicago (Ill.). Home Rule Commission, Chicago's Government, Its Structural Modernization and Home Rule Problems, page 8:
   • […] evidence of nonaldermanic elections involving black candidates was admissible in § 2 vote dilution action as proof of local voting patterns, where district court had statistical data of only two city aldermanic elections. 1989, West's Federal Practice Digest 4th - Volume 77, page 496:
   • […] there were still living in the City and Liberties fifteen nobleman and their ladies, one ambassador, and thirty-four nonaldermanic knights, some of them government contractors and officials like Sir Henry Spiller or Sir William Russell, some of them royal officials like Sir Robert Heath , others mere landed gentry like Sir Thomas Richardson. 2016, Barbara C. Malament, After the Reformation: Essays in Honor of J. H. Hexter, page 187:
   • A mayor of a nonaldermanic city or village does not have a veto power; a mayor in an aldermanic structure has very restricted voting powers; 1984, Stephen Davis Porter, Illinois Appellate Reports, page 480:

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