English Explanatory Dictionary

designated survivor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

designated survivor designated survivors

Etymology

designated + survivor

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