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(historical) An elected representative of a Hungarian royal free city, charged to be a speaker at the Diet of Hungary and to express the opinion of the city.
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(historical) A steward or official in various Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries.
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(Ireland, historical) An ad-hoc regional assembly summoned by the chief governor of Ireland, comprising members of the privy council supplemented by members representing localities within the relevant region.
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The governor or commander of a Spanish or Portuguese fortress or prison.
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Alternative form of aldermanic [Of or pertaining to an alderman.]
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Alternative form of emirship [The rank or office of an emir.]
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(In the House of Lords) the House of Commons.
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(rare) A chief governor.
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(formal, rare) A school principal.
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(historical) An appellate court of the Spanish empire.
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A local government council in some Spanish-speaking communities.
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Either of the two heads of state of San Marino, elected every six months.
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An honorific for the head of state of a republic in Germany.
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The office or business of a chaplain.
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Obsolete form of chancel. [The space around the altar in a church, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.]
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The president of the United States.
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(historical) Any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804.
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A kind of viceregal locum tenens appointed, either alone or jointly, to execute the political duties of a monarch during his or her absence from the seat of government.
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(informal, US politics) An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.
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The rank or position of decemvir.
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Obsolete form of alderman. [A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town.]
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(rare) The smallest administrative unit in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
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Nickname for Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California.
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(rare) That resembles, is appropriate for, or is related to a governor.
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(historical) A major administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire; a governorate or province.
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The status or office of a herald.
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(UK) Initialism of House of Lords. [The upper chamber of the UK's Houses of Parliament.]
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A governor in various specific contexts, including certain South American countries, and historically in the kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, and France, and in imperial China.
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A person who discharges the royal functions during an interregnum.
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An office in England dating from the 15th century (William IV when Duke of Clarence was the last holder until it was assumed by Elizabeth II in 1964).
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(Scotland, historical) Various former royal officials in the Kingdom of Scotland.
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The office of marshal, or the community of people who hold this office.
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The office of a mayor, or the tenure during which a particular mayor holds office, where the time span may encompass one term or multiple terms.
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(Britain) A city or town in England and Wales with an elected town council consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors.
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(linguistics) a noun denoting a single accomplishment of an action (rather than the action as such)
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Alternative letter-case form of Order of Council [A UK legislative instrument made by the Lord's of the Privy Council (in practice Government Ministers).]
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The head of a department in France.
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The office or role of president.
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Alternative letter-case form of prime minister [In a parliamentary democracy, the chief member of the cabinet and head of the government; often the leader of the majority party.]
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A prince who rules a country as a regent in place of a monarch who is unfit to rule for whatever reason.
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(Canada) The president of a township or municipal district council.
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The time during which a regent is in power.
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(now chiefly historical) A member of a municipal or civic body of governors, especially in certain European cities.
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The office of a regent; regency.
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(law) A year in the reign of a monarch, beginning on the day of accession, the set of which are numbered ordinally. Formerly laws in the United Kingdom were identified in part by the regnal year of the monarch, and this practice is still followed in some Commonwealth countries.
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(historical) a colonially-appointed chief in parts of Africa
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The office of a seneschal.
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The position or authority of a seraskier.
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Alternative spelling of stadtholder [(historical) The chief magistrate, then later, hereditary chief of state of the Dutch Republic.]
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(historical) An office formerly held by Danish and Swedish officials, best translated as governor-general.
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The office or jurisdiction of a subahdar.
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The position or office of subedar.
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An additional Roman consul elected during the official year, especially in order to replace a retiring one
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(chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
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Obsolete form of toparch. [The prince or ruler of a small district, city, or petty state; a petty "king".]
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(US politics, informal) The Vice President of the United States; the office of Vice President of the United States, especially during an election cycle where several are in the running for the nomination.
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(informal) A vice president.
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An appointment as verger.
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Of or relating to a vice president.
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The time during which one is vice-president; a vice-president's term of office.
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Alternative form of Vice President [(US) The holder of the secondary office to the President of the United States, who is first in line of succession to the President, and also acts as presiding officer of the United States Senate.]
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Pertaining to a vicegerent or vicegerency.
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The area ruled by a vicegerent.
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(gender-neutral) a viceroy
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the area ruled by a viceregent
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the official administrative deputy of a regent; vicegerent
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One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch.
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The place governed by a viceroy
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The office or term of a viceroy.
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(historical) Any member of a group of twenty-six officials.
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The territory administered by a viscount as (notably royal) official
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Alternative form of vizierate [The office, dignity, or authority of a vizier]
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Alternative form of viziership [The rank or position of vizier.]
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