n
The rank or office of an almoner.
n
The role or status of an alnager.
n
(obsolete) An anchoress.
n
An authority on manners or etiquette.
n
The role or status of a beglerbeg.
n
(UK, historical) A board of officials responsible for auditing the accounts of the royal household, making royal travel arrangements, and sitting as a court upon offences committed within the verge of the palace. More recently its jurisdiction was limited to alcohol sales and gambling licences, and it was abolished in 2004.
n
The skills or position of serving on a board.
n
The treasurer of a university, college or school.
n
The rank, office, or position of a butler.
n
The state or business of a cantor.
n
(South Africa, Zimbabwe) Abbreviation of comrade. A title used before a person's name, e.g. Cde Robert Mugabe. [A mate, companion, or associate.]
n
The position or office of a chargé d'affaires.
n
A colonial administrative centre.
n
(obsolete) A small rent paid to the lord paramount.
n
(Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
n
(rare) The role or status of concierge.
adj
Of or relating to constables.
n
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A lecturer who takes on the mantle of managing a specific course.
n
Obsolete form of councillor. [A member of a council.]
n
A person expected to inherit or take over an enterprise or undertaking once its current manager retires or dies.
n
The role or status of doge (chief magistrate).
n
The position or role of a don.
n
An honorific for the editor-in-chief of a publication.
n
The office or post of exchequer.
n
(informal) executive, executive officer
n
The state or business of an executive.
n
The role or status of an exon.
n
The status of being heir to something or someone
n
A person representing a country as a local consul, who is a private person (without diplomatic immunity; not a career diplomat) and part-time representative, with their own primary pursuits, frequently a citizen of the country that is hosting the consul (a local citizen; not a citizen of the country being represented) or expatriate (citizen of the country being represented, living and working in the local country), frequently with commercial ties to the country being represented.
n
The role or status of housemaster.
n
(Scotland) The state or condition of being a laird.
v
To use something as evidence of one's superiority over.
n
Obsolete form of main. [That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.]
n
Mastery: dominion, superiority, control.
n
The position, role, or work of a mercer.
n
(historical) A non-noble (originally unfree) official or retainer under certain feudal systems, especially in the Holy Roman Empire, who had specific military duties to his lord.
n
The role or status of a minstrel.
n
(by extension) One who bears a message; a messenger.
n
The role or status of an officer.
n
The position or role of an officer.
n
A person of any gender who performs the function historically defined by the term ombudsman.
n
(UK dialectal) A ruler; master.
n
(typically derogatory) Anyone with overarching power or authority in a given domain.
n
One who, or that which, controls, governs, or determines.
n
(historical) An officer responsible for the care of the poor, making out lists of voters and those who had not paid taxes, etc.
n
The role or status of a placeman.
n
Obsolete form of presidency. [The office or role of president.]
n
(slang) A president, especially of a college or university.
n
(UK, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
n
The position of Keeper of the Privy Seal.
adv
(law) In the capacity of a master or an owner; having dominion over a person, property, or a right.
n
(UK, historical) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
n
A leader or ruler chosen by another ruler to head a government, usually under the other ruler's order
n
The rank or office of purser.
n
Alternative form of quaestorship [The office or status of quaestor.]
n
(Scotland) An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body.
n
The role or status of ringmaster.
n
(politics) A candidate for the US vice-presidency.
n
The office of seneschal.
n
The office, rank, or condition of a servitor.
n
The office or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
n
The position or standing of a sizar.
n
(England, historical) A district under a particular jurisdiction.
n
(historical) The office or rank of a stadtholder.
n
The role or status of a steersman.
n
The rank or office of a steward.
n
The role or office of a steward; stewardship.
n
An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.
n
The state or business of a subclerk.
n
(UK) An assistant rector.
n
(US) The public officer in charge of a subtreasury.
n
Archaic spelling of superintendent. (was preferred form in early 1800s) [A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.]
n
The post or office of supervisor.
n
The rank or office of a surveyor.
n
Alternative form of town clerk [The chief administrative officer of a town, responsible for maintaining its records.]
n
The office or jurisdiction of an undersheriff.
n
The office or position of undersheriff.
n
The office of a verderer
n
One who acts in place of a superior.
n
The office / position of a warden
n
The role or status of yeoman.
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