Definition of "vice chancellor" []

• A deputy or an assistant chancellor in a university. (noun)
• A deputy to or a substitute for a head of state or an official bearing the title chancellor. (noun)
• Law A judge in equity courts ranking below a chancellor. (noun)

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• "Among the 230 students arrested in Berlin was Peter Brandt, the son of Willy Brandt, former Berlin mayor, minister of foreign affairs, and vice chancellor of Germany."
• "The colleges may have to turn away about 140,000 students, said Dan Troy, a vice chancellor of the state's 112 community colleges."