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Definition of Town meeting
1. Noun. Government of a town by an assembly of the qualified voters.
2. Noun. A meeting of the inhabitants of a town.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Town Meeting
Literary usage of Town meeting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The public affairs of the town are transacted in a town meeting which meets
annually, and also assembles in special meetings which may be called from time ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"In the town meeting it could easily be learned who were loyal and who were not.
... The public affairs of the town are transacted in a town meeting which ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"The town meeting has never bees representative; it is the prime legislature ...
Like all other functions and privileges of the towns, the town meeting is in ..."
4. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"The town meeting was at the same time a meeting of proprietors, ... When this
business was in progress, the town meeting was acting as a board of ..."
5. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1889)
"THE TOWN-MEETING. (a).—Membership and Organization. In those states where either
of the two higher types of local government prevails, the town-meeting is ..."
6. The Republic of New Haven: A History of Municipal Evolution by Charles Herbert Levermore (1886)
"The ultimate fact in the town government is the annual Town-Meeting, the ancient
General Court for the town, the folk-moot of all the voters resident in the ..."
7. Readings in American Government and Politics by Charles Austin Beard (1909)
"A Boston town meeting While the colonies presented many points of similarity in
the organization of their central governments, there was great diversity in ..."
8. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"Requisites of Notice of town meeting: Object of Meeting. — It is, however,
sufficient if the purpose or object of the 200; Bloomfield v. ..."
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