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
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
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
He had the justification in his own mind that the quadrumvirate had been ready to desert him anyhow.
From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
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