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commission plan definition

☆ commission plan

a form of municipal government in which all legislative and administrative powers are in the hands of an elected commission (usually five or six heads of various municipal departments)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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