returning officer

1. 1.

   the official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results

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   United Kingdom · Canada · Australia

Questions about returning officer

What does returning officer mean?

returning officer means "the official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results".

Is returning officer a common word?

returning officer 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.