lieutenant governor

1. 1.

   an elected official serving as deputy to the governor of a state of the United States

   Broaderelected official

Questions about lieutenant governor

What does lieutenant governor mean?

lieutenant governor means "an elected official serving as deputy to the governor of a state of the United States".

Is lieutenant governor a common word?

lieutenant governor 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.