premier
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Is premier a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (heraldry) Most ancient; first to hold a specified status.Examples: "PREMIER, a. This French word, which signifies first, is used by English Heralds to signify the most ancient Peer of any Degree by Creation; as Premier Baron, &c."; "[…]dau. of Lord Forbes, Premier Baron of Scotland (the Cumine family were of very ancient date[…])"; ""THE PREMIER DUKES OF FRANCE. " It will be seen from the autograph appended [...] He was the first to arrive, but it was to his coachman that he owed it that he became the premier Duke of France."
noun (English)
1. (politics, UK, Westminster system) The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.Examples: "1871 July 29, “Our Tyrant”, The Spectator, Volume 303, Issues 9308-9315, page 910, Mr. Gladstone had literally no option. Not to coerce the Lords was to coerce the Commons to continue purchase in spite of their repeated votes for its abolition, and this the Premier had as little the power as the will to do."
2. (politics, UK, Westminster system) The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.Examples: "More surprising than the company′s activities and interests were those of the premier of Ontario, Mitchell Hepburn."; "The major concern of most of the premiers who attended the 1887 conference was, as Macdonald well understood, to put pressure upoon Ottawa to amend the B.N.A. Act to increase the subsidies paid to the provinces by tying them to current population levels rather than those of 1860."; "John Forrest had dominated the fledgling state of Western Australia, serving as premier for the previous decade."Synonyms: first minister
3. (politics, non-Westminster) The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.Examples: "1983, Guo Zhou, China & the World, Volume 4, Beijing Review, page 13, This shows that our policy of strengthening friendly ties with Africa as developed by Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai is a correct one and that it has won popular support in Africa."; "Actual decision-making power in China resides in the state′s executive organs and in the CCP. At the national level the top government executive organ is the State Council, which is led by the premier."; "So, in the case of Russia and some other states, the head of state is the president (who is elected) and who then can name the premier and the cabinet ministers. The intent of this system is for the president to be popularly elected and to exercise political leadership, while the premier runs the everyday operations of government and leads the legislative power."
4. (nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.Synonyms: first lieutenant, first mate
5. (Australia, sporting) The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
Definition source: Wiktionary