quadrumvirate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of quadrumvirate
1745–55; quadr- + -umvirate (as in triumvirate )
Example Sentences
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It was founded as a private banking house in 1883 by the late Charles Crocker, one of the quadrumvirate that built Southern Pacific RR.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Its program will be emphatically put across by the Attlee-Bevin-Morrison-Greenwood quadrumvirate.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the quietly dramatic aspects of the picture drawn by Authors Alsop & Kintner is how, in the face of the facts told by the cables, the quadrumvirate of policy-makers moved with virtual unanimity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beneath the top quadrumvirate of Nixon's palace guard and trusted advisers—Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kissinger and Mitchell—there are many key second-echelon figures.
From Time Magazine Archive
Laviola, the Fiscal Secretary, and Hans Meyerstein, the Banking Cartel's lawyer, and Howlett, the Personnel Chief, and Buhrmann, the Commercial Secretary, have made up a sort of quadrumvirate and are trying to run things.
From Ullr Uprising by Piper, H. Beam
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