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Commission plan

commission plan

noun
a system of municipal government in which all the legislative and executive powers of the city are concentrated in the hands of a commission.

Origin:
1915–20
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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commission plan
 
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(in the US) a system of municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in a commission of five or six elected members

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