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单词 first minister
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first minister
first minister n. (also with capital initials) the principal minister of a sovereign, ruler, or state; the chief officer of the executive branch of government (spec. in Scotland and Wales since devolution in 1997) (cf. prime minister n. 1).
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > first minister of a ruler or state
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Katikkiro1866
1657 Duke of Ormond Copie Let. to Bp. of Dromer 2 I think I know what is due from me to the first minister of a great King.
1741 Lords' Protest in J. Morley Walpole (1889) vii. 163 We are persuaded that a sole, or even a First Minister, is an officer unknown to the law of Britain.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. lii. 358 The first minister..is a kind of representative on behalf of the regal prerogative.
1803 Ld. Melville in J. Morley Walpole (1889) vii. 162 That power must rest in the person generally called the First Minister, and that minister ought, he [sc. Pitt] thinks, to be the person at the head of the finances.
1843 tr. A. L. L. de Custine Empire of Czar I. 107 Peter notified him, through his first minister, that he was to attend the ceremony.
1997 Daily Tel. 25 July 1/3 The [sc. Scottish] parliament will have an executive headed by a First Minister which will operate in a similar way to the United Kingdom Government.
2002 Scotsman (Nexis) 1 Apr. 4 The First Minister of Wales..said yesterday that he was discussing whether to recall the Welsh assembly.
2008 Vanity Fair May 200/2 This ‘perilous’ situation, as Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, described it.
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