Other Meanings of The Word
The word governor can also refer to an administrator and/or supervisor (individually or collectively, see Board of Governors); the Governor of a national bank often holds ministerial rank.
- Federal Reserve Board of Governors
- Governor of the Bank of Canada
- Governor of the National Bank of Romania
- List of governors of national banks of Serbia and Yugoslavia
- Governors of the Hudson's Bay Company
Read more about this topic: Governor
Famous quotes containing the words word and/or meanings:
“I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say ‘you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.’”
—David Mamet, U.S. screenwriter, and Brian DePalma. Al Capone (Robert DeNiro)
“Man cannot bury his meanings so deep in his book, but time and like-minded men will find them. Plato had a secret doctrine, had he? What secret can he conceal from the eyes of Bacon? of Montaigne? of Kant? Therefore, Aristotle said of his works, “They are published and not published.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)