quadrumvirate

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If it could be made effective this quadrumvirate was to endure for years.

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  1. noun A group of four people joined in authority or office, especially a government of four people: "[Chiang Kai-shek] was . . . the last survivor of the World War II quadrumvirate that included Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin” (Newsweek).

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  • On the foredeck, seated in a row in four deckchairs, the quadrumvirate partook of their ease, occasionally swatting a low-hanging branch out of the way as it tickled their faces. —  open source theology - Comments
  • It could, of course, have been no less than three members of the quadrumvirate who had previously been seen at the 4th theological convention in the sala del maggior consiglia of the Doges Palace in Venice. —  open source theology - Comments
  • If it could be made effective this quadrumvirate was to endure for years. —  The Titan
  • The local banks at the behest of the big quadrumvirate might be coerced into straining their resources still further. —  The Titan
  • He had the justification in his own mind that the quadrumvirate had been ready to desert him anyhow. —  The Titan
 

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