returning officer


nounBritish.
  1. a public official appointed to conduct and preside at an election.

Origin of returning officer

1
First recorded in 1720–30

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How to use returning officer in a sentence

  • The voter gives his name to the returning officer, and receives a white ticket bearing his number on the register.

    Greater Britain | Charles Wentworth Dilke

British Dictionary definitions for returning officer

returning officer

noun
  1. (in Britain, Canada, Australia, etc) an official in charge of conducting an election in a constituency or electoral district, who supervises the counting of votes and announces the results

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