district commissioner
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdistrictandcommissioner
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district
noun[C]
uk/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/us/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/
an area of a country or town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or that has a particular feature that makes it different from ...
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commissioner
noun[C]
uk/kəˈmɪʃ.ən.ər/us/kəˈmɪʃ.ən.ɚ/
an important official who has responsibility in a government department or ...
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(Definition ofdistrictandcommissionerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He will see the samedistrictcommissionerand the same agricultural officer.
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He was highly respected and has a cousin who was a ruraldistrictcommissionerunder the old order.
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Will he be adistrictcommissioner, or some other official appointed by the authorities?
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The principal administrative officer is thedistrictcommissioner, assisted by the young assistantdistrictcommissioner.
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The incident of thedistrictcommissionerwith somebody waving a spear behind his back has already been gone into in sufficient detail.
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Discipline might have been left, if desirable, under the chief or the local district officer ordistrictcommissioner.
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Next week, there will be a top-level meeting between all chief superintendents, thedistrictcommissionerand the leader of the council.
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In fact, the scoutmaster asked for this programme, and it was approved by thedistrictcommissioner.
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In each district there is adistrictcommissioner, again with assistants.
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One officer is a district officer and the other is adistrictcommissioner.
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Thedistrictcommissionerthen prepares from time to time the number of vacancies in each detention camp.
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Thedistrictcommissionerwhen faced by an angry crowd, showed extraordinary courage.
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What is known as the "districtcommissioner" approach to listening to and working with local people must change.
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That form of protection, unless it is an appeal to some local commissioner or some localdistrictcommissionerwith power, will be no use.
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It can hardly do anything without the permission of thedistrictcommissioneror the district officer.
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Thedistrictcommissionercovered up, as others had covered up before.
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It concerns adistrictcommissioner.
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He in turn can either send a helicopter or a message by telegraph to the local post boy, which is what thedistrictcommissionerand the provincial commissioner have become.
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I understand that in the case of a number of prisons and prison camps the visiting magistrates consist of the provincial commissioner and thedistrictcommissioner.
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Councils are divided into districts with leadership provided by the district executive, district chairman, and thedistrictcommissioner.
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