high commissioner

1. 1.

   a senior diplomat from one country to another who is assigned ambassadorial rank

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Questions about high commissioner

What does high commissioner mean?

high commissioner means "a senior diplomat from one country to another who is assigned ambassadorial rank".

Is high commissioner a common word?

high commissioner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.