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deputy minister
noun
- (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
Example Sentences
Dmitrii held a senior position in Crimea for three years and the court heard he was also Russia's Deputy Minister for Industry and Trade.
In 2003, he left the private sector to join the Bank of Canada as a deputy governor, then worked for the Department of Finance as senior associate deputy minister.
Concerns were raised when it aired last month because it centred on a boy called Abdullah - the son of Hamas's deputy minister of agriculture.
How did the commissioners of the programme not know that the child narrator's father was a deputy minister for agriculture in the Hamas-run government?
It says the deputy minister for agriculture's role involves "food production relating to crops, fishing and livestock".
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