TOWN MEETING • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Town meeting

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/taʊn mˈitɪŋ/ Listen

Town meeting

noun

Government of a town by an assembly of the qualified voters.

A meeting of the inhabitants of a town.

See more definitions of Town meeting...

See images of 'Town meeting'

Etymology of 'Town meeting'

Share |

"Town meeting" Quotes from Famous Books

... enough men to put it down," said Bowman, quickly. "And it can come to a vote in Town Meeting next September, ...

— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long

... man dying intestate left slaves, who became thus the property of the city; they were freed, and the town made the above resolve, May 17, 1774, in town meeting: Staples, Annals of ...

— The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America - 1638-1870 • W. E. B. Du Bois

... was enacted another measure providing that whenever the Indians and people of color at Gay Head should by a vote in town meeting accept that act and should transmit to the governor an attested copy of the vote, the governor might then authorize the guardian to take up his duties at Gay Head, and might upon their request, appoint suitable persons ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various