Usually means: Symbolic leader with no power.
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  1. figurehead: Merriam-Webster
  2. figurehead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. figurehead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. figurehead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. figurehead: Vocabulary.com
  6. Figurehead, figurehead: Wordnik
  7. figurehead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. figurehead: Wiktionary
  9. figurehead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. figurehead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. figurehead: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Figurehead, figurehead: Dictionary.com
  13. figurehead: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Figurehead (metaphor), Figurehead (object), Figurehead, The Figurehead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Figurehead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. figurehead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. figurehead: Rhymezone
  18. Figurehead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. figurehead: FreeDictionary.org
  20. figurehead: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. figurehead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. figurehead: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. figurehead: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. figurehead: Legal dictionary

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  1. figurehead: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. figurehead: A Word A Day

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  1. Figurehead: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Figurehead: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (nautical) A carved figure on the prow of a sailing ship.
noun:  (by extension) Someone in a nominal position of leadership who has no actual power; a front or front man.
noun:  (nautical, slang, obsolete) A person's face.

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