governor-general

plural governors-general · alternative governor general

1. UKAn official appointed by the reigning British monarch to govern a Commonwealth realm as the monarch's representative.

   2003, The Far East and Australasia 2003, Europa Publications, page 122, The legislative power of the Commonwealth of Australia is vested in a Federal Parliament, consisting of HM the Queen (represented by the Governor-General), a Senate, and a House of Representatives.

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   It is a historical and analytical study of the position of Viceroy and Governor-General in the Indian constitutional system.

   1940, Abani Bhushan Rudra, The Viceroy and Governor-General of India, page xi

   The vulnerability of the Governor-General should not be overstated.

   1997, New Zealand Law Journal, page 217

   Synonyms: GG, G-G, G.G., G.-G., G. G.

2. An official in a similar position in other countries.

   Nikolai Bobrikov served as governor-general of the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1898 until his untimely death in 1904.

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   […]the proper warrants thereon shall be issued by the auditor and countersigned by the governor-general.

   1901, Puerto Rico Governor, Annual Report, page 311

   The Governor-General of Amur resides at Khabarovka (哈巴羅甫喀，即，伯利), in the Primorsk Province (東海濱省).

   RUSSIA IN ASIA

   1904, C. D. Tenney, “俄屬 [RUSSIA IN ASIA]”, in Geography of Asia, New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 36

   A real acuerdo (decision reached by a full session of the high court presided over by the governor-general) gradually came to have the force of law in the form of administrative ordinances embracing a wide range of subjects.

   1996, Greg Bankoff, Crime, Society, and the State in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines, page 105

   2007, Taiwan under Japanese Rule, 1895—1945, Murray A. Rubinstein (editor), Taiwan: A New History, page 222, In the meantime the Taiwan governors-general were gradually brought under closer supervision of the home government in Tokyo.

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