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office-bearer  n.  A person who holds an office; an officeholder. (Chiefly British)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Office-bearer" Quotes from Famous Books



... somewhat distant, in the opinion of a burgess of those days, although many of the present inhabit suburban villas considerably beyond the spot to which we allude. Three-quarters of an hour's walk, however, even at a pace of magisterial gravity, conducted our benevolent office-bearer to the Crags of St. Leonard's, and the humble ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... explicit, the meeting-place of the Royal Society from 1710 till 1782, and, consequently, during not much less than twenty years of the latter life of the illustrious author of the Principia, who, as an office-bearer in the institution, must have often taken an eminent place here. We were not, however, immediately in quest of the antiquities of the Royal Society. Our object was to form some acquaintance with the valuable ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 - Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 • Various



Words linked to "Office-bearer" :   U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, officeholder, United Kingdom



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