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(historical) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Oliver Cromwell's time, to look after their interests.
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Obsolete form of embassage.; message, embassy. [(archaic) An embassy.]
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(military) A geographical area wherein a commander is directly capable of influencing operations by maneuver or fire support systems normally under the commander’s command or control.
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In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
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(Australia) A kind of training programme that combines on-the-job experience with formal training.
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One entrusted with a (small) commission, such as an errand; especially, an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, etc.
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Alternative form of commissionaire [One entrusted with a (small) commission, such as an errand; especially, an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, etc.]
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(archaic) A guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after himself or herself.
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Someone who serves as president together within someone else.
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One of a group of people who act jointly as principals (in various senses).
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A public building housing courts of law.
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(politics) A member of the British House of Lords or the Senate of Canada or Australia who sits on a cross-bench, or who proclaims independence or political neutrality.
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One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
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(United States): a law enforcement officer who works for the county sheriff's office; a deputy sheriff or sheriff's deputy; the entry level rank in such an agency
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(informal, politics) A military coup d'état instigated by the military establishment (or a majority of it), not just a faction of the military.
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(real estate) A private association formed by a real estate developer for the purpose of marketing, managing, and selling homes and lots in a residential subdivision.
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Alternative form of homeowner association [(real estate) A private association formed by a real estate developer for the purpose of marketing, managing, and selling homes and lots in a residential subdivision.]
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Alternative form of homeowner association [(real estate) A private association formed by a real estate developer for the purpose of marketing, managing, and selling homes and lots in a residential subdivision.]
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(dated) One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent.
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Alternative form of land surveyor [a landing-surveyor (a customs official appointing and overseeing landwaiters)]
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(Britain, obsolete) A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction.
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(obsolete) A resident ambassador.
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Alternative form of mainpernor [(law) A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.]
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Abbreviation of manager. [(management) A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.]
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The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
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The record, kept by a manorial court, of the property held by tenants and the rent paid; physically a continuous roll of parchment documents stitched together.
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Abbreviation of manager. [(management) A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.]
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(obsolete) A place of meeting for discussion.
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ombudsman (as an abbreviated or gender-neutral title, or in apposition, as in "ombuds office").
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A legislative seat distribution, used to guarantee that a party gets their fair share of seats, when a party is entitled to fewer seats as a result of party votes than it has won constituencies. Additional seats granted to that party would be overhang seats.
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(obsolete) A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.
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A less-qualified or junior taxonomist
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(historical) A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign presided when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.
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The holder of a post (title).
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(Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
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A law enforcement officer who supervises offenders who have been released from incarceration and, often, recommends sentencing in courts of law.
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(government) A position or occupation established by law or by the act of a government body, for the purpose of exercising the authority of the government in the service of the public.
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(obsolete) One who is legally empowered to look into certain matters, especially abuses of weights and measures.
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The rank or period of being a recruit.
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(obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain.
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One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
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A person who is transferred temporarily to alternative employment, or seconded.
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Alternative form of subinspector. [A subordinate inspector.]
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A secondary or auxiliary judge.
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An under or subordinate advocate.
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Subaltern; inferior; subordinate.
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A lesser or subsidiary attorney.
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A secondary or subsidiary auditor.
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(rare) An inferior or under beadle.
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A lesser or subsidiary cashier.
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A secondary or subordinate chairman.
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A lesser or subsidiary commissary.
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A secondary or subordinate conservator.
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A lesser or subsidiary curator.
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An under dean; the deputy or substitute of a dean.
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A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.
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The rank or position of subeditor.
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A secondary or subordinate escheator.
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A lesser or subsidiary examiner.
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A secondary or subordinate executor.
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A lesser or subsidiary god.
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A secondary or subsidiary governor.
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The role of subinspector.
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An under or deputy marshal.
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(education, historical) A secondary or subsidiary schoolmaster.
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Below the rank of minister.
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A lesser or subsidiary official.
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A lesser or subsidiary regent.
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(US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
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A group of people chosen by the shareholders of a company to promote their interests through the governance of the company and to hire and supervise the executive directors and CEO.
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An official responsible for government surveying in a specific country or territory.
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A non-professional member of a territorial army.
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(law) A person appointed by a testator to assume legal guardianship of a minor following the death of a parent or other legal guardian.
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(Philippines, historical) A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.
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Serving as a guardian; protective; tutelary.
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In certain jurisdictions, a deputy sheriff; second in command to a sheriff.
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A medieval register of the land ownership of an area.
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