subgovernor

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ governor.

Noun

subgovernor (plural subgovernors)

1. A secondary or subsidiary governor.
   • 2009 May 25, Richard A. Oppel, “U.S. Captain Hears Pleas for Afghan Detainee”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “Upon speaking to multiple village elders, family members, the police chief and the subgovernor, I am convinced that the individual in question is not the person that the government claims,” he wrote in January to Clive Stafford Smith, a human rights lawyer he had met three years earlier during a posting to Guantánamo.