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What is "vice-chancellor"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vice-chancellor
noun
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▪ It says vice-chancellors believe this Government, any government, will not fund expansion.
▪ Once vice-chancellors start to think the unthinkable, then the issue becomes part of the agenda and it becomes harder to retreat.
▪ Only two vice-chancellors responded, and they both support some form of fees.
▪ The vice-chancellors asked for papers to inform their debate on fees at Leeds.
▪ The 48-year-old professor, an internationally known languages expert and former vice-chancellor of Essex University, is due in court in October.
▪ Two years later he was appointed vice-chancellor, in which capacity he served until his death.
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vice-chancellor

n. An official holding a rank immediately below that of chancellor.

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Vice-Chancellor (disambiguation)

Vice-Chancellor or vice chancellor may mean:

  • Vice-chancellor (education), the chief executive of a British or Commonwealth university (also used in some American universities)
  • Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, a former papal office
  • Chancellor of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, a British judicial position, formerly known as the Vice-Chancellor
  • Vice-Chancellor (US legal system), an American judicial position
  • Vice-Chancellor of Austria, the deputy head of government of Austria
  • Vice-Chancellor of Germany, the deputy head of government of Germany
  • Swiss Vice-Chancellor, one of two senior deputies to the Swiss Federal Chancellor
  • Generally, somebody whose duties are to assist a chancellor

Usage examples of "vice-chancellor".

In talk with Pico he set forth his intent, elaborating what already he had told the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor.

At Oxford, since the promulgation of the Laudian statutes, the duty has been discharged by the Vice-Chancellor.

There was only half a dozen people allowed to operate it from upstairs, to feed in secret stuff about the Nikolayans and to read out WESCAC's defense orders -- I mean people like the Joint Chairmen of Military Science, and the WESCAC Director, and the Vice-Chancellor for Riot Research.

Over each university also there is a several chancellor, whose offices are perpetual, howbeit their substitutes, whom we call vice-chancellors, are changed every year, as are also the proctors, taskers, masters of the streets, and other officers, for the better maintenance of their policy and estate.

Burly men and quite a few women, in artfully torn tights with sports socks stuffed in their bras, leaning against the walls like, well, Tarts, whilst patrician Edwardian vice-chancellors peer down from their portraits in despair.