vice-chancellor

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Etymology

From vice- +‎ chancellor.

Noun

vice-chancellor (plural vice-chancellors)

  1. (education) An official holding a rank immediately below that of chancellor.
    1. (education, often) The chief executive of a university, college or similar facility where the chancellor is a largely ceremonial role.
  2. A lower judge of chancery.
  3. (Christianity) In Roman Catholicism, the cardinal whose duty it is to draft and dispatch papal bulls and briefs.

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