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Definition of City manager

1. Noun. The head of a city government.

Lexicographical Neighbors of City Manager

Literary usage of City manager

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Model City Charter: With Home Rule Provisions Recommended for State (1922)
"The city manager. The city manager shall be the chief executive officer of the city. ... 6 The city manager shall receive a compensation of not less than a ..."

2. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"... commission government in American cities, the city-manager plan, and constitutional restrictions on municipal indebtedness were prepared by a commission ..."

3. The American Political Science Review (1922)
"The Nashville charter supplies what orthodox advocates of the city- manager plan consider a mongrel form; it provides for a council of fifteen elected by ..."

4. The Planning of the Modern City: A Review of the Principles Governing City by Nelson Peter Lewis (1916)
"The city manager plan of administration, described in the chapter on City Planning ... Of 30 towns the title of " city manager " was selected by 19, ..."

5. A Bibliography of Municipal Government in the United States by William Bennett Munro (1915)
"List of references on the city manager plan. Bulletin, June-July, 1912, p. 12. ... The city manager plan of municipal government. New York, 1913. 35 pp. ..."

6. The Government of American Cities by William Bennett Munro (1920)
"Those which do not, and which seek to secure improvement, are much more apt to try the city- manager experiment than to revert to the old plan of government ..."

7. Local Government in the United States by Herman Gerlach James (1921)
"The City-Manager Plan.88— The city-manager plan, as has been stated, is a product of ... For discussions of the history and theory of the city-manager plan ..."

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