Crossword clues for premier
premier
- Top-notch rock band in seaside attraction
- Top rock group blocks promenade
- Chinese leader
- Prime minister
- Title for a Canadian province leader
- Title for Zhou Enlai from Oct. 1, 1949 to Jan. 8, 1976
- Government head
- English football's __ League
- Chinese government bigwig
- _____ , British Columbia
- ___ League (top flight of English soccer...ahem, I mean "football" clubs)
- Leading
- The person who is head of state (in several countries)
- The position of the cabinet minister who is in charge of government affairs
- The person who holds the position of head of state in England
- Foremost
- Head of a Canadian province
- Voyeur embracing this setter over cardinal
- Senior politician about to get millions in support
- First upsurge in sea at Calais entering jetty
- First in importance
- Leader concerned with source of money provided in support
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Premier \Pre"mi*er\, a. [F. premier, fr. L. primarius of the first rank, principal, fr. primus the first. See Primary, Prime, a.]
First; chief; principal; as, the premier place; premier minister.
--Camden. Swift.Most ancient; -- said of the peer bearing the oldest title of his degree.
Premier \Pre"mi*er\, n. The first minister of state; the prime minister.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "first in time;" late 15c. as "first in rank," from Middle French premier "first, chief," from Latin primarius "of the first rank, chief" (see primary (adj.)).
1711 in the political sense, a shortening of premier minister (1680s); see premier (adj.). In U.S. usage, premier formerly was applied occasionally to the Secretary of State (1855-c.1900).
Wiktionary
Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree. n. 1 (context politics UK Westminster system English) The leader of the government in parliament and leader of the cabinet. 2 # (context politics UK parliament English) The prime minister. 3 # (context politics Australia Canada South Africa English) The government leader in parliament and leader of cabinet in a state or provincial parliamentary system. 4 (context politics non-Westminster English) The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government. 5 (context nautical slang English) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship. v
To perform, display or exhibit for the first time.
WordNet
adj. first in rank or degree; "an architect of premier rank"; "the prime minister" [syn: premier(a), prime(a)]
preceding all others in time; "the premiere showing" [syn: premiere]
n. the person who holds the position of head of state in England [syn: Prime Minister, PM]
the person who is head of state (in several countries) [syn: chancellor, prime minister]
Wikipedia
Premier is a title for the head of government in some countries, states and sub-national governments. A second in command to a premier is designated as a vice-premier or deputy premier.
Premier was a smokeless cigarette released in the United States in 1988 by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. It worked by heating and aerosolizing tobacco flavour and was intended to reduce or eliminate the unhealthy side effects associated with smoking, both to the smoker and to the people around the smoker.
While RJR itself questioned whether the device functioned adequately as a nicotine delivery device, activists derided it for its potential for use in delivery of other drugs. It never achieved popularity, as smokers complained about a charcoal-like aftertaste, and although it looked like a conventional cigarette, special instructions were required to teach smokers how to light it. RJR estimated that it would take two or three packs for a smoker to acquire a taste for Premier, but in practice many smokers only smoked one cigarette and shared the rest of the pack. It was withdrawn from the market in 1989, less than a year after its introduction.
It was launched in India in 2002 and failed in 2003.
R.J. Reynolds reintroduced the concept behind the Premier cigarette as the Eclipse brand in the 1990s.
In Canada, a premier is the head of government of a province or territory. Though the word is merely a synonym for prime minister, it is employed for provincial prime ministers to differentiate them from the Prime Minister of Canada. There are currently 10 provincial premiers and three territorial premiers. These persons are styled The Honourable only while in office, unless they are admitted to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, in which case they retain the title even after leaving the premiership.
The prime minister - premier distinction does not exist in French, with both federal and provincial first ministers being styled premier ministre.
Premier is the head of government.
Premier may also refer to:
In South Africa, a Premier is the head of government of one of South Africa's nine provinces. The Premier of a province plays for that province a role similar to that played by the President for the country as a whole.
Usage examples of "premier".
Hellfire League, Aurora knew, was an exclusive club of the premier rakes in England, dedicated to pleasure and debauchery.
Ma chambre devint le rendez-vous des vieux capitaines comme des jeunes sous-lieutenants: les premiers me faisaient faire leurs campagnes, les autres me confiaient leurs amours.
Ari bn Bem, are you now legitimate Premier Ari afbn Bem, ruler of planet Pandro.
Pandro is going to join the Federation and our old friend Commander bn Bem has just been made premier.
He t privacy fetish about keeping his door closed at all t so no one could see a former premier danseur helpless on his bed.
Office of Finance, and numerous other dictates over the years, had ultimately left the legislature prisoner to the whims of Premier Sandra Nagy and her Expansionist cronies.
Grayson had let slip a few things about the present state of the Federation that suggested there was a civil war going on in parts of that far-flung comglomeration of planets, that worlds had rebelled against Premier Nagy and the Expansionist forces.
This resolution was read in a committee of ways and means on Monday, the 17th of February, after which Lord John Russel addressed the committee, factiously opposing the scheme of the premier, without offering any sound practical suggestion, or propounding any principle.
Raf told himself and lifted a bunch of red flowers from a bucket in front of a store near the corner of al-Atarinne and Rue Faud Premier.
Paul, devant le premier cure ou vicaire sur ce requis, en gardant les solennites en ce cas requises et accoutumees.
There was a Madame de Raudon, who certainly had a matinee musicale at Wildbad, accompanied by Herr Spoff, premier pianist to the Hospodar of Wallachia, and my little friend Mr.
Premier Ladier and Miss Hyla Adrianopole must remain secret, until we begin publishing it within the next several weeks or so, and then all shall be revealed.
Premier Ladier and Hyla Adrianopole, his mistress, whose murder trial had begun the day before, since there was supposedly information about Sufyerd in them.
I want to give you, without strings, a transcript of the letters between Hyla Adrianopole and Premier Ladier.
The Bavarian cabinet of Eugen von Knilling proclaimed its own state of emergency on September 26 and named the right-wing monarchist and former premier Gustav von Kahr as State Commissioner with dictatorial powers.