noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: government
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