Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various two-man executive boards in the Roman Republic.
- noun A regime or partnership of two persons.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The union of two men in the same office, or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several branches of the
executive in Republican Rome controlled by two people. - noun A group of two
officials ; a union or coalition of two people.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word duumvirate.
Examples
-
UPDATE: (June 17) The duumvirate has struck a working committee!
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
-
In which case, it's possible that Putin will become the victim of his own creation -- Medvedev's "successorship" and the power duumvirate.
Matvey Ganapolskiy: Imagine That! Putin Might Not Be So Pure After All. 2010
-
In which case, it's possible that Putin will become the victim of his own creation -- Medvedev's "successorship" and the power duumvirate.
Imagine That! Putin Might Not Be So Pure After All. Matvey Ganapolskiy 2010
-
"The fortysomethings who now dominate the Cabinet have left it far too late to move against the Blair-Brown duumvirate that held the party in thrall for too long".
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
-
The fortysomethings who now dominate the Cabinet have left it far too late to move against the Blair-Brown duumvirate that held the party in thrall for too long.
-
The fortysomethings who now dominate the Cabinet have left it far too late to move against the Blair-Brown duumvirate that held the party in thrall for too long.
-
UPDATE: June 17 The duumvirate has struck a working committee!
-
Within days, it was becoming evident to observers in the media and the diplomatic corps that the duumvirate would not last.
Shuja Nawaz: Who Will Be Calling the Shots in Pakistan? 2008
-
Since then, Ukraine has a divided government with a duumvirate, at its top.
-
A combination of the Thatcher reforms and the decade-long Blair – Brown duumvirate has achieved what was once deemed impossible: Britain has stopped declining.
fbharjo commented on the word duumvirate
How duo!
April 6, 2011