Mayor vs Superintendent - What's the difference?
mayor | superintendent |
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
A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
A police rank used in Commonwealth countries, ranking above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent.
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, chapter=7 The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same. Often abbreviated "super".
(chiefly, US) A janitor.
Overseeing; superintending.
As nouns the difference between mayor and superintendent
is that 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 while superintendent is a person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.As a proper noun Mayor
is {{surname|from=Anglo-Norman}.As an adjective superintendent is
overseeing; superintending.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(en noun)- The Libertarian mayor of Big Water, Utah, recently slashed property taxes in half and even repealed his own salary!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.
Synonyms
* (l) * mayoress (female mayors only) * provost (Scotland)Hyponyms
(municipal principal leader) * mayor , lord mayor (male mayor) * mayoress , lady mayor (female mayor)Derived terms
* mayoress (female mayor) * lord mayor * lady mayorAnagrams
* * ----superintendent
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Noun
(wikipedia superintendent) (en noun)citation, passage=“No, don't,” replied the superintendent ; “in fact, I'd rather you made yourself conspicuous elsewhere. Go down to the landing stage and cross to New Brighton or Wallasey—doesn't matter which—and come back. No doubt you will be seen, and reported to have gone across.”}}
