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nominal head
noun as in figurehead
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In the management of penal institutions a Board of Directors or of Control is, ordinarily, the nominal head.
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After witnessing the ruin of the party of which he had been the nominal head, he had retired to Holland.
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Strangers who visit the island are received by the nominal head of the family, whom the others call father.
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The duke of Portland became the nominal head of the government, Fox and North its real leaders.
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He, I soon discovered, did most of the actual work, though his father was still the nominal head of affairs.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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