elderate

From elder +‎ -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, here the concrete charge of it), a calque of Lithuanian seniūnija.

• enPR: ĕlʹdərāt, IPA^(key): /ˈɛldəɹeɪt/

elderate (plural elderates)

1. (rare) The smallest administrative unit in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.

   Synonym: eldership

   • 2007, Rimantas Šlajus, “Business Growth in Švenčionys District Goes Hand in Hand with Cultural Traditions”, in Lietuvos ekonomika ir visuomenė — Lithuanian Economy and Society, VšĮ „Įvaizdžio formavimo centras“, →ISBN, page 343/1:

     One of the major accomplishments of the Business Information Centre has been the involvement of Švenčionys people into the project on poverty and social exclusion reduction in Northern Ireland, stirring up life in the countryside and training of initiative people from all elderates who later have naturally started leading the foundation of rural communities.

   • 2007, “Birštonas Municipality Territory — the Perl^[sic] of Nemunas Loops”, in Rimantas Šlajus, opere citato, page 354/2:

     The centre of Birštonas elderate which consists of 46 villages is Birštonas individual-farm settlement. The territory of the elderate is 111 km².

   • 2009, Chiara Guglielmetti, “Local Development in a European Union Perspective: Cohesion and Regional Policies in Central and Eastern Europe” (chapter 3, pages 63–98), in Paul Blokker, Bruno Dallago, editors, Regional Diversity and Local Development in the New Member States, first paperback edition, Houndmills · New York: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, Box 3.1 The administrative organization of CEE new Member States and Applicant Countries, page 85:

     Lithuania established its administrative organization in 1994 and in 2000 introduced some modification in order to meet EU requirements. It is divided into 10 Apskritys (counties), 60 savivaldybés^{[sic – meaning savivaldybės]} (municipalities) and more than 500 seniūnijos (elderates).

   • 2010, Clive Carpenter, “Lithuania: Government”, in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland (World and its peoples. Europe; 8), New York: Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 1,096/2:

     Municipalities are subdivided into elderates, some 546 in all. An elderate, which comprises a village, several small villages, a small town, or a city neighborhood, is responsible for small-scale matters, such as sidewalk cleaning. Elderates are run by an official (an elder) appointed by the municipality; in cities, the elder is elected.

   • 2014, Emil Daniel Tesliuc, Lucian Bucur Pop, Margaret Ellen Grosh, Русла́н Гео́ргиевич Емцов [Ruslan Georgievich Yemtsov], “Overview of Key Arrangements: Institutional Actors, Regulations, and Program Financing” (chapter 3, pages 49–68), in Income Support for the Poorest: A Review of Experience in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Directions in Development), District of Columbia: The World Bank, →DOI, →ISBN, Institutional Arrangements (pages 50–53), page 52:

     In Lithuania and Uzbekistan, where the size of the lowest administrative tier is large, some functions are delegated to territorial subunits of the local governments (wards or elderates in Lithuania, and mahallas in Uzbekistan).

   • 2019, Raj S. Chari, John Hogan, Gary Murphy, Michele Crepaz, “Countries with laws in the first decade of the 2000s” (chapter 3), in Regulating Lobbying: A Global Comparison, 2^nd edition, Manchester: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, § 2. Lithuania, no pagination:

     In terms of levels of governance, since 2000 the country has been divided according to a three-tiered administrative structure in order to meet with EU requirements. The national territory is divided into ten counties, which are in turn subdivided into 60 municipalities, comprising over 500 ‘elderates’, which manage small-scale local matters.

• Alderete, deal tree, teal deer