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COMMON COUNCIL

Definition: COMMON COUNCIL

COMMON COUNCIL

1. The representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: COMMON COUNCIL

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Tribunal

Assize, eyre; wardmote, burghmote; barmote; superior courts of Westminster; court of record, court oyer and terminer, court assize, court of appeal, court of error; High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Star Chamber; Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty; Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court; sessions; quarter sessions, petty sessions; court-leet, court-baron, court of pie poudre, court of common council; board of green cloth.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expression: COMMON COUNCIL

Expression using "COMMON COUNCIL": court of common council. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COMMON COUNCIL

Language Translations for "COMMON COUNCIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

városi tanács (corporation, town council). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ommoncay ouncilcay

   

Portuguese

  

conselho municipal. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

муниципальный совет (city council). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

opštinsko veće. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ayuntamiento (city council, city hall, corporation, town council, town hall, town-hall). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stadsråd (city council). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COMMON COUNCIL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-c-i-l-m-m-n-n-o-o-o-u"

-4 letters: communion.

-5 letters: uncommon.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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