vice-chancellor
a substitute, deputy, or subordinate chancellor.
a chancery judge acting in place of a chancellor.
the chief administrator of certain British universities.: Compare chancellor (def. 7).
Origin of vice-chancellor
1Other words from vice-chancellor
- vice-chan·cel·lor·ship, noun
Words Nearby vice-chancellor
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How to use vice-chancellor in a sentence
She went on to become vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town and one of four managing directors of the World Bank.
Larson does not explain that the vice-chancellor was spared in order to inculcate uncertainty.
Perhaps the most intriguing question left unanswered is why, after so much bloodletting, Hitler spared vice-chancellor von Papen.
This is still the attitude of one who receives a degree at Cambridge from the vice-chancellor.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerIt was suppressed by royal proclamation in 1610 and all copies were ordered to be brought to the Chancellor or vice-chancellor.
A History of the Cambridge University Press | S. C. Roberts
It would need awesome circumstances indeed to send a modern vice-chancellor through the night to inquire of an astrologer.
The Age of Erasmus | P. S. AllenWhite, a generous man, gave the vice-chancellor ‘seven pounds of double-refined white sugar.’
Oxford | Andrew LangThe noise of the affair reached as far as the ears of the King himself, and rattling letters were sent to the vice-chancellor.
Rowlandson's Oxford | A. Hamilton Gibbs
British Dictionary definitions for vice chancellor
the chief executive or administrator at some British universities: Compare chancellor (def. 3)
(in the US) a judge in courts of equity subordinate to the chancellor
(formerly in England) a senior judge of the court of Chancery who acted as assistant to the Lord Chancellor
a person serving as the deputy of a chancellor
Derived forms of vice chancellor
- vice-chancellorship, noun
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