Vice chancellor Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a deputy or assistant to someone bearing the title of chancellor

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  1. . (a) (Law) An officer next in rank to a chancellor. (b) An officer in a university, chosen to perform certain duties, as the conferring of degrees, in the absence of the chancellor. (c) (R. C. Ch.) The cardinal at the head of the Roman Chancery.

Webster 1913