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prime minister

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

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prime minister

n.

executive, leader, PM*; see administrator.


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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.

Preposition: at

  • time: Unfortunately the prime minister at the time, Winston Churchill, ordered the machines to be destroyed at the end of the war.

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.

Possessives

  • question: Cameron also passed the big test of prime minister's questions.

Preposition: for

  • time: By the time Benjamin Disraeli became prime minister for the first time, the house was in poor shape.
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It is fitting that we should have buried the unknown Prime Minister by the side of the Unknown Soldier.

-Asquith

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl

We had intended you to be The next Prime Minister but three: The stocks were sold; the Press was squared; The Middle Class was quite prepared. But as it is!† My language fails! Go out and govern New South Wales!

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre

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