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subgovernor en · NOUN

Etymology

From sub- + governor.

Meanings

1. A secondary or subsidiary governor.
   • “Upon speaking to multiple village elders, family members, the police chief and the subgovernor, I am convinced that the individual in question is not the person that the government claims,” he wrote in January to Clive Stafford Smith, a human rights lawyer he had met three years earlier during a posting to Guantánamo. 2009 May 25, Richard A. Oppel, “U.S. Captain Hears Pleas for Afghan Detainee”, in New York Times:

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