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prime minister

noun

in parliamentary governments, the chief executive and, usually, head of the cabinet

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prime minister

n.

prime minister Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • become: By the time Benjamin Disraeli became prime minister for the first time, the house was in poor shape.
  • appoint: The president appoints a prime minister and council of ministers.
  • say: A senior Scottish Labor MP said the prime minister must stop defying public opinion over the crisis in Lebanon.
  • believe: They had the money, they had the majority and - if we believe the prime minister - they had the desire.
  • choose: Eg, the monarch symbolically chooses the prime minister, can dissolve parliament and no bill can pass into law without royal assent.
  • include: No Briton, including the prime minister and all members of the police and armed forces, is above the law.

Preposition: at

  • time: Unfortunately the prime minister at the time, Winston Churchill, ordered the machines to be destroyed at the end of the war.
  • election: At most it could determine who might be a future prime minister at the next general election.

Converse of subject

head: An emergency committee, headed by the prime minister, has been tasked to deal with the drought, Kim added.

Adjective modifier

  • deputy: John Prescott will stay as deputy prime minister, but will lose his department.
  • former: The most popular candidate among party supporters is Lionel Jospin, the former prime minister, who lost to Jacques Chirac in 2002.
  • Israeli: Did they mean that the US was not putting enough pressure on the hardline Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon to make concessions for peace?
  • Conservative: As divided, in fact, as they were under the last Conservative prime minister.
  • Australian: Australian prime minister John Howard has argued that East Timor needs better governance.
  • liberal: Gladstone became Liberal prime minister for the second time in April 1880 and hoped to pass an emergency Land Bill through parliament that summer.

Possessives

  • question: Cameron also passed the big test of prime minister's questions.
  • time: His interventions at prime minister's question time and his points of order to the speaker often cause a deal of unease for ministers.
  • view: The prime minister's views on nuclear are well known.
  • performance: Le Journal de la Haute-Marne, in the northeast, is similarly dismissive of the prime minister's performance.

Preposition: for

time: By the time Benjamin Disraeli became prime minister for the first time, the house was in poor shape.