resident commissioner

1. 1.

   the representative of Puerto Rico in the United States House of Representatives

   Broaderrepresentative

Questions about resident commissioner

What does resident commissioner mean?

resident commissioner means "the representative of Puerto Rico in the United States House of Representatives".

Is resident commissioner a common word?

resident 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.