dyarchy

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Governor remarked to me, "We are in reality skipping the dyarchy stage."

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  1. noun Variant of diarchy.

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  • When a peer was prime minister there was often a form of dyarchy, with the leading MP treated as an effective PM in the Commons. —  Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
  • Governor remarked to me, "We are in reality skipping the dyarchy stage." —  India, Old and New
  • Northern Ireland is a dyarchy in which both leaders are regarded as equal. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • The authors of the Report were themselves fully alive to the demerits as well as to the merits of dyarchy, and they were careful to state it as their intention that "the Government thus composed and with this distribution of functions shall discharge them as one Government, and that as a general rule it shall deliberate as a whole." —  India, Old and New
  • Governors, of treating the two wings of their Government as equally associated with them in a common task of governance, has robbed the distinction between "reserved" and "transferred" subjects, if not of all reality, at any rate of the invidious appearance of discrimination which might otherwise have attached to the word "dyarchy." —  India, Old and New
 

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  1. from Greek δυαρχία, dyarchy, from δύο, two, + ἀρχειν, rule, govern.
 

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/ˈdaɪərki/
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