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assemblyman

noun

Etymology

From assembly + -man.

  1. derived from asemblee
  2. derived from asemblee
  3. inherited from assemblee
  4. formed as assemblyman — “assembly + -man”

Definitions

  1. A male member of an assembly.

  2. A member of the lower house of certain US state legislatures.

    • "There is clearly a systemic problem," said Richard L. Brodsky, a Westchester assemblyman, who is sponsoring a bill to require that mercury gauges be replaced with nonmercury alternatives.
    • Having just elected to return the arms in question to their Catholic owners, Maryland's assemblymen were not about to authorize Nicholson's order to reconfiscate the arms and risk stirring up the anger of the colony's Catholics.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA