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office-bearer|ˈɒfɪsˌbɛərə(r)|
One who bears or holds office; an officer.
1645J. Dury Israel's Call 12 Civill and Ecclesiasticall office-bearers. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvi. III. 694 One [Act]..required every officebearer in every University of Scotland to sign the Confession of Faith. Ibid. xix. IV. 376 The right..of the office bearers of the Church to meet and deliberate touching her interests. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. (1875) 10 As a plain citizen of the republic of letters, and not as an office-bearer in a hierarchy. |