Usually means: Ceremonial officer in English counties.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. High Sheriff, high sheriff: Merriam-Webster
  2. high sheriff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. high-sheriff: Wordnik
  4. High Sheriff, High sheriff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. High Sheriff: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. High Sheriff: Merriam-Webster
  7. high sheriff: Wiktionary

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  1. High Sheriff: Legal dictionary

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  1. High Sheriff: Encyclopedia

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  1. High Sheriff: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (high sheriff)

noun:  A ceremonial officer associated with a county of England, Wales, or Northern Ireland.
noun:  The chief of a number of paid sheriffs in U.S. states who outranks and commands the others in their court-related functions.
noun:  An official who provides administrative services to the supreme and provincial courts.

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