governor-general

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Noun

governor-general (plural governors-general)

  1. (UK) An official appointed by the reigning British monarch to govern a Commonwealth realm as the monarch's representative.
    • 1940, Abani Bhushan Rudra, The Viceroy and Governor-General of India‎, page xi:
      It is a historical and analytical study of the position of Viceroy and Governor-General in the Indian constitutional system.
    • 1997, New Zealand Law Journal, page 217:
      The vulnerability of the Governor-General should not be overstated.
    • 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.
  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.
    • 1901, Puerto Rico Governor, Annual Report‎, page 311:
      […] the proper warrants thereon shall be issued by the auditor and countersigned by the governor-general.
    • 1904, C. D. Tenney, “俄屬 [RUSSIA IN ASIA]”, in Geography of Asia‎, New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 36:
      The Governor-General of Amur resides at Khabarovka (哈巴羅甫喀，即，伯利), in the Primorsk Province (東海濱省).
    • 1996, Greg Bankoff, Crime, Society, and the State in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines‎, page 105:
      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.
    • 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.
  3. A zongdu.

Synonyms
  • (abbreviation): GG, G-G, G.G., G.-G., G. G.

Translations
zongdu — see zongdu

See also
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