designated survivor (English, noun)
expansion: designated survivor (plural designated survivors)
Senses:
topics: government
glosses: A member of the cabinet who stays at a physically distant, secure, and undisclosed location when the president and all those in the line of succession are gathered at a single location, so as to provide a successor should a catastrophic event occur where the others die or are incapacitated.
tags: US
Forms:
form: designated survivors
tags: plural