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Prefect

A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.

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Administrator 76% connected

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a ma…

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Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of t…

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Admiral noun · 78% connection

A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank a…

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Advance adjective · 78% connection

Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army;…

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Armada verb · 78% connection

A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.

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Bureau noun · 78% connection

Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the directio…

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Camp verb · 78% connection

To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.

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Cashier noun · 78% connection

One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank…

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Charge verb · 78% connection

To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to c…

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Commissioner noun · 78% connection

An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.

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Congregation noun · 78% connection

A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Pr…

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Controllable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command.

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Deacon noun · 78% connection

An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholi…

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Dean noun · 78% connection

A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.

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Department verb · 78% connection

Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury departm…

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Department of State noun · 78% connection

the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789"

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DOS noun · 78% connection

the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789"

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Flotilla noun · 78% connection

A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

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Gymnasiarch noun · 78% connection

An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense.

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Impeach verb · 78% connection

To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavi…

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