First-minister definition

(UK, Ireland) The leader of the devolved governments of Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland.
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(Canada) Any of the ten provincial premiers or the prime minister of Canada.

A first ministers meeting is used to discuss inter-governmental affairs.

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Noun

Singular:
first-minister
Plural:
first-ministers

First-minister Sentence Examples

  • In the following year he was named first minister of France (August).

  • Some doctrinal differences having arisen in the church at Poitiers, Antoine de Chandieu, First minister at Paris, went to compose them, and, as the General .

  • Mazarin died in the next year; but so strong was the feeling that the kings of France could only rule through a first minister that it was generally expected that Mazarin would soon have a successor.

  • On the death of the regent Orleans in 1723 Fleury, although already seventy years of age, deferred his own supremacy by suggesting the appointment of Louis Henri, duke of Bourbon, as first minister.

  • A skilful party-leader, Laurier kept from the first not only the affection of his political friends but the respect of his opponents; while enforcing the orderly conduct of public business, he was careful as first minister to maintain the dignity of parliament.

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