premier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ɛː/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛm.jɛː/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ə/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛm.jə/
ipa: /pɹɪˈmɪəɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɹimjɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɹemjə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: premiers
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French premier (adjective), from Latin prīmārius. Doublet of primary.
Senses: examples: 1871 July 29, “Our Tyrant”, The Spectator, Volume 303, Issues 9308-9315, page 910,
Mr. Gladstone had literally no option. Not to coerce the Lords was to coerce the Commons to continue purchase in spite of their repeated votes for its abolition, and this the Premier had as little the power as the will to do.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
The prime minister.
qualifier: UK parliament
examples: text: More surprising than the company′s activities and interests were those of the premier of Ontario, Mitchell Hepburn.
ref: 1974, Irving M. Abella, On Strike; Six Key Labour Struggles in Canada, 1919-1949, page 96:
text: The major concern of most of the premiers who attended the 1887 conference was, as Macdonald well understood, to put pressure upoon Ottawa to amend the B.N.A. Act to increase the subsidies paid to the provinces by tying them to current population levels rather than those of 1860.
ref: 1986, R. Kenneth Carty, National Politics and Community in Canada, page 116:
text: John Forrest had dominated the fledgling state of Western Australia, serving as premier for the previous decade.
ref: 2007, Patrick Moray Weller, Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901-2006: Practice, Principles, Performance, page 1:
text: In 1890 it was South Australian Premier Charles Cameron Kingston who first proposed a system of compulsory conciliation and arbitration to deal with industrial unrest.
ref: 2009, Andrew Stewart, edited by John Spoehr, Chapter 16: Industrial Relations: State of South Australia: From Crisis to Prosperity?, page 302:
text: In 2009 Kristina Keneally became Labor premier in NSW in similar circumstances to her predecessors in Western Australia and Victoria - a Labor government that was in deep trouble because of mismanagement and corruption scandals.
ref: 2011, Jennifer Curtin, Marian Sawer, “4: Oceania”, in Gretchen Bauer, Manon Tremblay, editors, Women in Executive Power: A Global Overview, page 56:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
The leader of a state or provincial government and cabinet.
examples: text: 1983, Guo Zhou, China & the World, Volume 4, Beijing Review, page 13,
This shows that our policy of strengthening friendly ties with Africa as developed by Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai is a correct one and that it has won popular support in Africa.
text: Actual decision-making power in China resides in the state′s executive organs and in the CCP. At the national level the top government executive organ is the State Council, which is led by the premier.
ref: 1998, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 16, page 61:
text: So, in the case of Russia and some other states, the head of state is the president (who is elected) and who then can name the premier and the cabinet ministers. The intent of this system is for the president to be popularly elected and to exercise political leadership, while the premier runs the everyday operations of government and leads the legislative power.
ref: 2008, Steffen W. Schmidt, Mack C. Shelley, Barbara A. Bardes, American Government & Politics Today, page 470:
topics: government
politics
qualifier: non-Westminster
glosses: The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
qualifier: sporting
glosses: The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
Synonyms: sense: parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a national parliament
word: prime minister
sense: parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a national parliament
word: first minister
sense: parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a state or provincial parliament
word: first minister
sense: head of government in a non-Westminster system
word: prime minister
sense: second-in-command on a ship
word: first lieutenant
sense: second-in-command on a ship
word: first mate
Derived terms: minor premier
Related terms: premiere
king
queen
president
governor
first minister