Magistrate vs Mayor - What's the difference?
magistrate | mayor |
(legal) A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.
(Quebec) A master's degree
The leader of a city, or a municipality, sometimes just a figurehead and sometimes a powerful position. In some countries, the mayor is elected by the citizens or by the city council.
* 2003 , Mary Ruwart, Healing our world in an age of aggression - Page 374
* 2011 , Michael Ryan, The Heart's Location, p 32
By restriction, a male municipal leader
(historical) The steward of some royal courts, particularly in early Medieval France
As nouns the difference between magistrate and mayor
is that magistrate is a judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both while mayor is the leader of a city, or a municipality, sometimes just a figurehead and sometimes a powerful position. In some countries, the mayor is elected by the citizens or by the city council.As a proper noun Mayor is
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(wikipedia magistrate)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----mayor
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Alternative forms
* mayour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The Libertarian mayor of Big Water, Utah, recently slashed property taxes in half and even repealed his own salary!
- To assist him in his task Paul was joined by Ron Adams, who had been a three-term Libertarian mayor in Ann Arbor, Michigan.