1. (n.) One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.

2. (n.) One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.

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