high commissioner

noun

a representative of one sovereign member of the Commonwealth of Nations in the country of another, having a rank and responsibilities generally similar to those of an ambassador.
the chief of a special international commission or other organization.
the head of government in a mandate, protectorate, possession, or the like.

high commissioner

the senior diplomatic representative sent by one Commonwealth country to another instead of an ambassador
the head of an international commission
the chief officer in a colony or other dependency

First recorded in 1880–85

When I finished my seven years as president of Ireland in 1997, I became high commissioner for human rights.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that 3,419 others are known to have died at sea in 2014, so far.

Read the speech given Thursday in the United Arab Emirates by Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

“I am very pessimistic,” U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres told me.

Today there are some 535,000 Syrian refugees registered in Jordan with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

It was exactly the same thing at the office of high commissioner.

An armistice was then agreed upon pending the High Commissioner's arrival.

The High Commissioner left Pretoria by special train yesterday.

Mr. Chamberlain has cabled to the High Commissioner respecting the leaders in the recent rising.

President Kruger and the High Commissioner exchanging opinion over the uneasiness.

Turkey agreed, but Shakir Pasha, the high commissioner, failed to restore order and the disorder threatened to become a revolt.

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