• The head of an elected government; the principal minister of a sovereign or state.

  首相，总理

  as title the Japanese prime minister argued strongly against it

  Prime Minister Albert Reynolds

  Example sentencesExamples

  • There have been many mutual visits, by presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers.
  • There, the president will have lunch with the prime minister and a group of his constituents.
  • We love the fact that she's a multimillionaire, on speaking terms with presidents and prime ministers.
  • And he was able to mix as easily with presidents and prime ministers and dictators as with the common man.
  • He was economic adviser to several prime ministers, beginning with Indira Gandhi.
  • British prime ministers lose office either because they lose a general election or because their party removes them.
  • Other walls are decorated with framed thank-you letters from ministers and prime ministers.
  • Ryder didn't bother telling the child that they had prime ministers in Australia, not presidents.
  • He has the advantage of the strong support of the prime minister and the rest of the cabinet.
  • Since the 1980s, the Antilles has had two female prime ministers and several female ministers.
  • The prime minister would be assisted by three deputy prime ministers.
  • He also left his mark on the system of government by enlarging the scope of the prime minister's role.
  • Removal of elected prime ministers in such an undemocratic way is a disgrace to democracy.
  • That's all very well, but we don't elect prime ministers to ask difficult questions, we elect them to come up with answers.
  • It is a convention that prime ministers are not seen to have any campaigning role in a by-election.
  • Presidents and prime ministers were talking about the environment on a daily basis.
  • He will become one of only a handful of former prime ministers to have written a book about subjects outside politics.
  • There are many political parties, and prime ministers must forge coalitions.
  • The maharajas of Mysore employed highly competent dewans, or prime ministers, who ensured that the state was ahead of the times.
  • The prime ministers of Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom were elected.

  Synonyms

  premier, first minister, head of the government

  British First Lord of the Treasury

In current use, the terms Premier and Prime Minister refer to the same office in Britain, but in Canada and Australia the government of a province or state is headed by a Premier, that of the federal government by a Prime Minister. In countries such as France, where the President has an executive function, the Prime Minister is in a subordinate position