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Meaning of chancellor in English

chancellor
noun [ C ]
(also Chancellor)
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/ˈtʃɑːn.səl.ər/ us
/ˈtʃæn.səl.ɚ/
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a person in a position of the highest or high rank, especially in a government or university:
Helmut Kohl became the first Chancellor of a united Germany in 1990.
A former politician has been appointed Chancellor of the university.
UK
the Chancellor of the Exchequer (= the person in the UK government in charge of tax and government spending):
The Chancellor will deliver his budget later today.
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chancellor | American Dictionary

chancellor
noun [ C ]
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/ˈtʃæn·sə·lər/
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a person in a position of the highest or high rank, esp. in a government or university:
Helmut Kohl became the first chancellor of a united Germany in 1990.
(Definition of chancellor from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

chancellor | Business English

chancellor
noun [ C ]
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/ˈtʃɑːnsələr/ us
Chancellor
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GOVERNMENT, FINANCE
→  Chancellor of the Exchequer :
With news of profit losses across the nation, the chancellor is expected to cut interest rates.
GOVERNMENT
a title used in some countries for an official position of high rank in a government, legal system, or university:
She was the first woman chancellor of Germany.
Chancellor Kohl
the vice-chancellor of the university

chancellorship

noun [ S ] uk/ˈtʃɑːnsələʃɪp/ us/ˈtʃænsəlɚ-/
Debt increased massively during his chancellorship.
(Definition of chancellor from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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Vice-chancellors were lulled into a false sense of security.
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However, we have made inquiries and understand that no vice-chancellors or their deputies are currently suspended.
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Chancellors are not cold-blooded men; even the present one has decent feelings, just as his predecessors did.
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Chancellors have come forward and announced reductions in income tax.
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The public sector is not as adequate a publicist of misery as are the universities and the vice-chancellors.
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Discipline in our universities must be left to the vice-chancellors.
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Indeed, its members have been offered everything agreed between the vice-chancellors and the students in the latter part of last year.
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The university vice-chancellors and principals are arguing that students ought not to have access.
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The vice-chancellors merely argue about particular decisions which may be against their interests.
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The proportion of representations from vice-chancellors and principals is necessarily small, given the overall total of letters received.
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Our concern about debt is shared by university vice-chancellors, who see more students struggling with it.
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I am aware that already there is the machinery of a committee composed of vice-chancellors and principals.
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Chancellors are averse to giving away what they see as part of their control of the finance within our economy.
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Even we vice-chancellors have to live within our budgets.
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Many of us have received letters from the vice-chancellors, who are not a frivolous committee and who are deeply worried about it.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
（政府）大臣，總理，大法官, （大學）校長, 財政大臣（英國政府中負責稅收和政府開支的人）…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
（政府）大臣，总理，大法官, （大学）校长, 财政大臣（英国政府中负责税收和政府开支的人）…
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in Spanish
canciller, rector, rectora…
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in Portuguese
chanceler, reitor, reitora…
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(bazı ülkelerde) başbakan, bazı üniversitelerde en üst seviyedeki kişi, rektör…
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chancelier/-ière, président…
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kanselier, hoofd van een universiteit…
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kancléř, rektor…
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kansler, rektor…
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kanselir, rektor…
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ข้าราชการระดับสูง, อธิการบดี…
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Đại Pháp Quan, Thủ tướng, hiệu trưởng…
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kanclerz, rektor, minister skarbu…
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justitiekansler, universitetskansler…
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canselor…
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der Kanzler, der Vorstand…
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overhode, kansler, rektor…
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канцлер, президент університету…
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канцлер, ректор, министр финансов (в Великобритании)…
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