RETURNING OFFICER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does returning officer mean? 

• RETURNING OFFICER (noun)
  The noun RETURNING OFFICER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RETURNING OFFICER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETURNING OFFICER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("returning officer" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Domain region:

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

New Zealand (an independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery)