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designated survivor

noun

Etymology

designated + survivor

  1. derived from super — “over”
  2. derived from supervivere — “to outlive”
  3. derived from survivre
  4. derived from survivre
  5. formed as survivor — “survive + -or”
  6. compounded as designated survivor — “designated + survivor”

Definitions

  1. A member of the cabinet who stays at a physically distant, secure, and undisclosed…

    A member of the cabinet who stays at a physically distant, secure, and undisclosed location when the president and all those in the line of succession are gathered at a single location, so as to provide a successor should a catastrophic event occur where the others die or are incapacitated.

The neighborhood

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