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acolyte collapse: someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches

roundsman collapse: a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on)

sergeant collapse: any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the army or air force or marines ranking above a corporal

superintendent collapse: a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector

amicus curiae collapse: an adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case; usually someone who wants to influence the outcome of a lawsuit involving matters of wide public interest

beadle collapse: a minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services; United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)

federal collapse: any federal law-enforcement officer; a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War; national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units; "the Federal Bureau of Investigation"; "federal courts"; "the federal highway program"; "federal property"; characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities; "a federal system like that of the United States"; "federal governments often evolved out of confederations"; of or relating to the central government of a federation; "a federal district is one set aside as the seat of the national government"

reeve collapse: female ruff; fasten by passing through a hole or around something; pass through a hole or opening; "reeve a rope"; pass a rope through; "reeve an opening"

nabob collapse: a wealthy man (especially one who made his fortune in the Orient)

backup collapse: (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device; "he made a backup in case the original was accidentally damaged or erased"; an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage; "a traffic backup on the main street"; "he discovered a backup in the toilet"

reactionary collapse: an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism; extremely conservative

auxiliary collapse: functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"

alter ego collapse: a very close and trusted friend who seems almost a part of yourself

vicar collapse: a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman; (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish; (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel

collector collapse: the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes; a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth; a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes); a person who collects things

provincial collapse: (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order; "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"; characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"; of or associated with a province; "provincial government"

detective collapse: a police officer who investigates crimes; an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public

exponent collapse: a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself; someone who expounds and interprets or explains

understudy collapse: an actor able to replace a regular performer when required; be an understudy or alternate for a role

vice collapse: a specific form of evildoing; "vice offends the moral standards of the community"

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