deputy minister

British

noun

(in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department

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The pollution has also affected water supplies in Ukraine, with contamination in the Chernivtsi, Vinnytsya and Odesa regions, according to Ukrainian Deputy Minister Iryna Ovcharenko.

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The former deputy minister of economic development corresponded with Epstein for several years, the files show.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I think it’s too early to predict what will happen,” said Sri Lanka’s deputy minister of information, Kaushalya Ariyarathne.

From The Wall Street Journal

On Monday, she sacked his wife, Camilla Fabri, who served as deputy minister for international communication.

From Barron's

"We have some good people that can go out mining and blasting and drilling and all that kind of stuff," explained Deputy Minister of Minerals Resources, Jorgen T Hammeken-Holm.

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