Definitions
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- noun A subordinate or assistant governor.
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- noun A secondary or subsidiary
governor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"If I had a chance, I would handcuff the subgovernor and take him to jail tomorrow," Zahir says.
Tribal loyalties remain challenge for forces in Afghanistan 2011
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Asil Khugyani, the Karzai-appointed district subgovernor, is accused of taking sides with Doud in his feud with Zahir and of sending men loyal to the subgovernor to a local bazaar to shake down merchants for protection money.
Tribal loyalties remain challenge for forces in Afghanistan 2011
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The district subgovernor in the valley had been a mujaheddin commander decades earlier and battled occupying Soviet forces in the same mountains.
U.S. and Afghan forces launch major assault in eastern province of Konar 2010
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The district subgovernor in the valley had been a mujaheddin commander decades earlier and battled occupying Soviet forces in the same mountains.
U.S. and Afghan forces launch major assault in eastern province of Konar 2010
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A few weeks earlier, Ismael Wafi, subgovernor of Chak District, requested a meeting with Lt.Col. Gallahue at his main battalion base.
In Preview of Surge, U.S. Calms Afghan Valley but Peace Is Fragile 2009
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Last year, it took a 150-man police escort to get Sayed Jawad Bahoner, the new subgovernor of this district, safely into Jalrez town to assume his post.
In Preview of Surge, U.S. Calms Afghan Valley but Peace Is Fragile 2009
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So says Haji Doulat, the 63-year-old subgovernor of Mandozai, one of the 12 districts of Khost Province.
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"You don't care about your country," Qadar Gul, the subgovernor for Zerok District, chided them.
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The charter also required the shareholders to elect a governor, subgovernor, deputy governor and a court of assistants; but that the routine business of the company should be conducted by a smaller committee corresponding to the committee of six of the previous company.
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The subgovernor and the deputy governor were to be aided by a court of assistants, reduced to twenty-four in number, and by a select committee of five instead of the committee of seven as formerly.
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