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governors general
Variant of governor general
noun pl. governors general or governor generals
- a governor who has subordinate or deputy governors, specif., one who is appointed by the British sovereign, as in some countries of the Commonwealth
- in some countries of the Commonwealth, a person appointed as a symbolic representative of the British sovereign
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