Definition of "selectmen" [selectmen]

• Plural form of selectman. (noun)

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• "Five incumbents were the only residents to take out nomination papers for the May 3 annual town ballot, as of noon Wednesday: first-term selectmen Paul Feeney and Lynda Walsh, school committee member Katie Adair, Town Clerk Robert Cutler and Housing Authority member Richard Hobbs."
• "BROOK: I would say the selectmen who are the town kind of trustees in Maine -- they're called selectmen -- and the town lawyer, the town counsel, and just about everybody on every committee in town."
• "Officers usually known as selectmen or supervisors, attend to the general business of the town."