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Another word for statesman

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Noun
      1. (Historical) In Japan, any of a number of retired statesmen who served informally as a group of advisors to the emperor
      2. A term of respect for a prominent elderly person
      3. Any elderly retired statesman who continues to be consulted unofficially on governmental matters
      1. A member of a legislative assembly
      2. A member of a governmental body, usually legislative, chosen by popular vote.
      3. A member of a legislative or governing body who represents a constituency.
      1. A person skilled in dealing with other people; tactful person
      2. One, such as an ambassador, who has been appointed to represent a government in its relations with other governments.
      3. A representative of a government who conducts relations with the governments of other nations; person whose career or profession is diplomacy
      1. Someone who devises strategies.
      2. One using strategy; esp., one skilled in strategy
      1. A sly or ingratiating person.
      2. One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.
      3. A person actively engaged in politics, esp. party politics, professionally or otherwise; often, a person holding or seeking political office
      1. (Sports) A referee or umpire.
      2. One who holds an office or position, especially one who acts in a subordinate capacity for an institution such as a corporation or governmental agency.
      3. A person holding office, esp. public office
      1. An authorized diplomatic representative of a government, usually ranking next below an ambassador.
      2. A high officer of state appointed to head an executive or administrative department of government.
      3. A diplomatic officer sent to a foreign nation to represent his or her government, usually ranking below an ambassador
      1. A person or group having administrative or managerial authority in an organization.
      2. The branch of government charged with putting into effect a country's laws and the administering of its functions.
      3. The chief officer of a government, state, or political division.
      1. One who administers, especially one who works as a manager in a business, government agency, or school.
      2. (Law) A person appointed by a court to settle an estate
      3. An executive or official of a business, institution, etc.
      1. A town in New York.
      2. A city in Ohio.
      3. An ancient Athenian statesman and lawgiver, one of the Seven Sages (c.630-c.560 BC).
      1. A legislator.
      2. A person who draws up, introduces, or enacts a code of laws for a nation or people; lawmaker
      3. One who provides the laws to a society.
      1. One who drafts or enacts laws, especially a member of a legislative body.
      2. A member of a legislative assembly; lawmaker
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Sentence Examples

  • Consalvi, besides being a statesman, was a man of wide and varied interests.

  • Besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor.

  • GAIUS LICINIUS CALVUS STOLO, Roman statesman, the chief representative of the plebeian Licinian gens, was tribune in 377 B.C., consul in 361.

  • MAURICE ROUVIER (1842-), French statesman, was born at Aix on the 17th of April 1842, and spent the early years of his manhood in business at Marseilles.

  • After every deduction it remains true that no contemporary showed equal genius as a colonial statesman, or in this 'department rendered equal service to his country.

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