relieving officer

English

Noun

relieving officer (plural relieving officers)

1. (UK, historical) A person employed to evaluate the cases of people applying for relief, and to allocate funds or authorize entry to the workhouse.
2. (UK, university slang, obsolete) One's father.

References

• (father): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
• (father): 2012, Julie Coleman, The Life of Slang (page 161)