During her mayoralty, the mayor greatly improved the city.
He won the mayoralty in the last two elections.
Recent Examples on the WebEastwood, of course, never achieved office higher than the mayoralty of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., but the organizing principle remains the same: what makes a celebrity, to Trump, is charisma, which can’t be taught.—Ramin Setoodeh, Washington Post, 17 June 2024 All 128 seats in the Senate and all 500 in the lower house, local congresses in 31 states, nine state governorships, and the mayoralty of Mexico City will also be on the ballot.—Denise Dresser, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2024 Two years into the administration of Mayor Adams, many of the forebodings against his mayoralty have come true.—Darren MacK, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2024 The party fared less well than expected for major seats, like mayoralties and district leaders, capturing 26 percent of the vote, second to the C.D.U.’s 27 percent.—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 1 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for mayoralty
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English mairaltee, from Anglo-French mairalté, from maire
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