The responsibility or duties of an alderman in local government; the office or jurisdiction of an alderman.
From alderman (from Old English ealdorman, meaning chief or nobleman) plus -ment (from Latin mentum, meaning state or condition). A medieval administrative term.
Aldeament is a ghost word from medieval England—it captures the power that local nobles had before modern democracy, when an alderman's word was law in their territory.
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