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subgovernor

subgovernor noun: a secondary or subsidiary governor.

Noun

subgovernor (plural subgovernors)

  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...2009 May 25, Richard A. Oppel, “U.S. Captain Hears Pleas for Afghan Detainee”, in New York Times

Forms of subgovernor

pluralsubgovernors

Origin of subgovernor

From sub- + governor.

Questions about subgovernor

What does subgovernor mean?
Subgovernor means a secondary or subsidiary governor.
What part of speech is subgovernor?
Subgovernor is a noun.
What is the plural of subgovernor?
The plural of subgovernor is subgovernors.

Words near subgovernor in the dictionary

  1. subgods
  2. subgoverness
  3. subgovernesses
  4. subgovernment
  5. subgovernments
  6. subgovernor
  7. subgovernorate
  8. subgovernorates
  9. subgovernors
  10. subgrade
  11. subgrades

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