lieutenant governor (English, noun)
expansion: lieutenant governor (plural lieutenant governors)
Senses:
topics: government
glosses: The state representative of, or second-in-command of a governor, or Crown, who usually acts as the nominal chief executive officer of the realm.
topics: government
glosses: The representative of the Crown in the provincial legislatures of Canada.
tags: Canada
topics: government
glosses: The next-in-line to the chief executive of a primary political division of the United States of America, such as a state, second to the governor.
tags: US
Forms:
form: lieutenant governors
tags: plural
form: lieutenant-governor
tags: alternative