Vocabulary
alcalde
mayor (the leader of a city or a municipality); an official such as an administrator, mayor, or judge; A variation of brisca for three players, that is played with the forty-card pack of Spanish-suited playing cards.
Noun
ayuntamiento
city council, town council, council (a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen); city hall, town hall; sexual intercourse
Noun
alcaldía
city hall (the building in which a city government is located); a city government; mayor's office; mayorship, mayoralty
Noun
síndico
syndic; receiver (person who acts as trustee for a bankrupt); municipal mayor, head of a sindicatura, or municipal subdivision in Sinaloa and Sonora.
Noun
colegial
schoolboy; resident of a colegio mayor; negrito (birds on the genus Lessonia); bread pudding
Noun
zarceño
native or inhabitant of Zarza la Mayor (usually male); native or inhabitant of Zarza de Montánchez (usually male)
Noun
IPIM
initialism of índice de precios internos al por mayor (“index of internal wholesale prices”)
Noun
bastón de mando
staff of power; baton (a symbolic staff held by a person in authority, especially by the mayor in Spanish towns); baton, balance of power
Noun
porciolista
of José María de Porcioles (1904-1993) (the former mayor of Barcelona); Porcioles's (of or relating to him or his policies)
Adjective
alcalde pedáneo
district mayor, small-town mayor (a subdivision for rural areas in the Mexican states of Sonora and Sinaloa, below a sindicatura)
Noun
mayora
an elderly female cook, who may work in a commercial kitchen but typically does not have formal training
Noun