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CHIEF OF STATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chief of state mean?
• CHIEF OF STATE (noun)
The noun CHIEF OF STATE has 1 sense:
1. the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government
Familiarity information: CHIEF OF STATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
chief of state; head of state
Hypernyms ("chief of state" is a kind of...):
representative (a person who represents others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chief of state"):
chancellor; premier; prime minister (the person who is head of government (in several countries))
PM; premier; Prime Minister (the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom)
president (the chief executive of a republic)
Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)
crowned head; monarch; sovereign (a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right)
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