How to pronounce“figurehead”in English
verbthe remnants of those former regimes those networks as political economic and security networks as patronage networks how you govern a country beyond just a
figurehead how you deliver security and almost disenfranchised many of your population those things no one had a clue about how to solve them let alone
the local populations that had rose up in different cities and then we saw in Egypt that it returned so autocratic regime in 2013 attempted in Tunisia a
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Definitions of “figurehead”
A carved figure on the prow of a sailing ship.
Someone in a nominal position of leadership who has little to no actual power.
“Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.”
To lead (something) nominally and with little to no actual power.
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