county seat
nounDefinition of county seat
: a town that is the seat of county administration
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Each paper’s publisher accuses the other of simply making up facts to fit its opinion as to where the county seat should reside. — Belinda Luscombe, Time, "'I Put 1,400 Pages in the Trash.' The Tiger's Wife Author Téa Obreht on Killing Two Books to Create Her New Novel," 13 Aug. 2019 Her husband is the feckless editor of a local newspaper caught in a political conflict over moving the county seat, a change that would kill off their own remote town. — Ron Charles, Washington Post, "Téa Obreht’s ‘Inland’ is a magical Western you’ll want to savor with a tall glass of water," 12 Aug. 2019 As the county seat, Oroville has a substantial workforce population. — Natalie Hanson, The Mercury News, "Oroville could be fastest-growing Northern California city, despite Camp Fire housing crisis," 11 Aug. 2019 Alhadeff won an open north county seat last August and joined the board in November. — Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, "Debbi Hixon, wife of slain Parkland coach, will run for School Board," 5 Aug. 2019 The county seat, run down as parts of it are, is an outpost of civilization compared with what surrounds it for 50 miles in every direction. — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, "The White Ghetto," 23 July 2019 Many of the pills sold in Pipestone probably went to Murray County to the east and Lincoln County to the north, both of which have county seats that have fewer people and more limited retail businesses than Pipestone. — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, "Real World Economics: Drug addictions sap economy but vary regionally," 21 July 2019 And no county seat in Alabama saw more prescriptions per person than Jasper. — Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al.com, "Where the opioid epidemic hit Alabama hardest," 21 July 2019 Earle, who had named the community after its sister city back home in England, successfully petitioned the county commissioners to select Liverpool over neighboring settlements Cedar Lake and Lake Court House as the county seat in 1839. — Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, "Liverpool FC is coming to Indiana this week — but we've had a Liverpool before," 16 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'county seat.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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