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ˈtown-ˈmeeting
A general assembly of the inhabitants of a town; spec. in U.S. a legal meeting of the qualified voters of a ‘town’ for the transaction of public business, having certain powers of local government.
1636Salem, Mass., Town Recds. 16 At a generall Court or towne meeting of Salem held the second of..May ao 1636. 1639Boston Town Recds. 2 July, At the next townes meeting. 1747Shirley in Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. (1912) 786 The principal cause of the mobbish turn of this town [Boston] is its constitution, by which the management of it is devolved upon the populace, assembled in their town meetings. 1819Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. App. 116 The resolutions..were probably those you mention of the town-meeting of Boston. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. xiii. 426 Each town-meeting was a legislative body. 1878Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xx. 414 Those whom their townsmen had chosen in their own town-meeting. |