Definition of "satrap" [sa•trap]

• A governor of a province in ancient Persia. (noun)
• A ruler. (noun)
• A subordinate bureaucrat or official: "The satraps of Capitol Hill will not sit idly by” ( David Nyhan). (noun)

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• "Chosroes, or the artifice of Heraclius, soon alienated the mind of that powerful satrap from the service of his king and country."
• "If Bessus killed Darius and took the throne, that would drag out the fight, especially as the satrap was a skilled warrior and general who had the loyalty of the Bactrians and other eastern provinces."
• "Krüger thinks, of Eastern Armenia; Tiribazus being called satrap of"