Meanings
nounsubgovernor (plural subgovernors)
plural subgovernors
- A secondary or subsidiary governor.
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“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
Origin
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APA
subgovernor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subgovernor
MLA
“subgovernor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subgovernor. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “subgovernor,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subgovernor.
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