subgovernor

Etymology

From sub- + governor.

subgovernor means A secondary or subsidiary governor. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

A secondary or subsidiary governor.““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.”