A Governor-General or Governor General is a vice-regal representative of a monarch in an independent realm or a major colonial state. Depending on the political arrangement of the territory, a Governor General can be a governor of high rank, or a principal governor ranking above `ordinary` governors. == Current uses == In modern usage, the term .....
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• A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India.
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(from the article `India`) ...one to four years, with a year`s gap before reelection. This ended the soliciting of votes for the control of policy by private interests and gave ... In 1548, still in response to much the same pressures and incentives as in 1530, the Portuguese decided to set up direct royal government in Brazil. ... T...
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Representative of the British government in a Commonwealth country that regards the British sovereign as head of state. The first Commonwealth country to receive such a representative was Canada in...
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Gov'ern·or gen'er·al A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the
governor general of Canada, of India.
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n] - a governor of high rank
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the representative of the Queen in Australia at the federal level
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