triumvir
Americannoun
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Roman History. one of three officers or magistrates mutually exercising the same public function.
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one of three persons associated in any office or position of authority.
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Origin of triumvir
1570–80; < Latin: literally, one man of three, back formation from trium virōrum of three men
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After finishing Fools for Scandal, Producer LeRoy, a son-in-law of Triumvir Harry M. Warner, left the family plot for a production berth at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, safe from barbed thrusts about nepotism.
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Sixty-one-year-old Triumvir Orozco, invited to exhibit with the youngsters, flatly refused.
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Triumvir Sequeiros proclaimed Rivera's show unnecessary and based on an idea that was "old and a failure."
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In 1932 some one picked The Triumvir, for which Mrs. Payne Whitney had paid the highest price of the year, but Colonel Bradley won just the same.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marcus Antonius, commonly called Mark Antony, the Triumvir, grandson of Antonius the “orator” and son of Antonius Creticus, related on his mother’s side to Julius Caesar, was born about 83 B.C.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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