duumvirate

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  1. noun Any of various two-man executive boards in the Roman Republic.
  2. noun A regime or partnership of two persons.

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  • The Bush-Cheney duumvirate won an undeclared war against the Constitution. —  AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
  • But think for a minute what message all those successes would send to future presidents and vice presidents and their subordinates: If you break the law, the punishment shall be that the duumvirate immediately following yours will not break the law. —  Teknosis
  • President Obama has embraced the national security psychology of the Bush-Cheney duumvirate not only in matters of secrecy, but the entire range of civil liberties abuses justified by a purported global and endless war against international terrorism. —  Buck Naked Politics
  • Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary? —  Ulysses
  • Tartar frontier, and the charge of imperial affairs was taken over by a regency or duumvirate. —  Ancient China Simplified
 

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  1. = French duumvirat = Spanish duunvirato = Portuguese duumvirato = Italian duumvirato, from Latin duumviratus, from duumviri: see duumvir and -ate.
 

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/djuˈəmvɪreɪt/
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