Crown Agent
noun
1
: an agent for the British crown
specifically : a solicitor under the lord advocate in charge of criminal proceedings in Scotland
2
: an agent in England acting in behalf of the business and financial interests of a British colony
Word History
First Known Use
1753, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- two-part code
- two-part form
- two-part measure
- two-part time
- two-party
- two-phase
- two-piece
- two-piece suit
- two-piecer
- two-platoon system
- two-ply
- two-point
- two-point landing
- two-point limen
- two-point perspective
- two-point problem
- two-point threshold
- two-price
- two-revolution press
- two-rowed barley
- two-seater
- Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptist
- two-shear
- two-shot
- two-sided