quadrumvirate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of quadrumvirate
1745–55; quadr- + -umvirate (as in triumvirate )
Example Sentences
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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
Its program will be emphatically put across by the Attlee-Bevin-Morrison-Greenwood quadrumvirate.
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
Despite his illness, Giap, 63, is still part of the quadrumvirate that has ruled North Viet Nam since Ho's death in 1969.
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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