[kwo-druhm-ver-it, -vuh-reyt] 
| a governing or managing group, coalition, or the like, of four persons. |
| quad·rum·vi·rate (kwŏ-drŭm'vər-ĭt) n. A group of four people joined in authority or office, especially a government of four people: "[Chiang Kai-shek] was . . . the last survivor of the World War II quadrumvirate that included Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin" (Newsweek). [quadr(i)- + (tri)umvirate.] |
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