Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of four people joined in authority or office, especially a government of four people.
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- noun A group of
four men, especially four men joined inauthority
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- noun a group of four men
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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When the revolutionary quadrumvirate split into two factions -- Villa -
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When the revolutionary quadrumvirate split into two factions -- Villa -
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Naturally, the minor speculators throughout the city — those who had expected to make a fortune out of this crash — raged and complained, but, being faced by an adamantine exchange directorate, a subservient press, and the alliance between the big bankers and the heavy quadrumvirate, there was nothing to be done.
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Here was not only a loophole for himself in connection with his own subtle side-plays, but also, if the quadrumvirate desired, an excuse for deserting the troublesome fortunes of Hull & Stackpole.
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He had the justification in his own mind that the quadrumvirate had been ready to desert him anyhow.
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If it could be made effective this quadrumvirate was to endure for years.
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Mr. Gilgan, so Cowperwood knew, was only one of a new quadrumvirate setting out to rule the city, but he pretended to believe that he was the last word — an all power and authority — after the fashion of McKenty.
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The local banks at the behest of the big quadrumvirate might be coerced into straining their resources still further.
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There can be a motion of no confidence in the whole ruling triumvirate or quadrumvirate but not in an individual leader.
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There can be a motion of no confidence in the whole ruling triumvirate or quadrumvirate but not in an individual leader.
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