VICEROY Synonyms

• someone who administers a business

• the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor

• someone who manages a government agency or department

• the head of a state government

• a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)

• a person who rules or guides or inspires others

• a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers

• having official authority or sanction

• of or relating to an office

• a worker who holds or is invested with an office

• someone who administers the rules of a game or sport

• verified officially

• conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline

• (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution

• a person who directs and manages an organization

• members of a governing board

• someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch

• acting or functioning as a regent or ruler

• a person who rules or commands

• measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths

• a high-ranking university administrator

• a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman

• (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel

• (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish

• wife of a viceroy

• governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign

• showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller