(n.) A person invested with full power to transact any business; especially, an ambassador or envoy to a foreign court, with full power to negotiate a treaty, or to transact other business.
(a.) Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Devolution cannot just be economic – it has to be democratic too.” How does this mesh with chancellor George Osborne’s insistence on plenipotentiary, conurbation-wide mayors?
(2) Even a few weeks ago, I would have preferred to spend the day reflecting on the events of 1981,” said Piotr Wieczorek, KOD’s plenipotentiary for national action.
(3) The Guardian understands from military sources that there has been little consultation over politicians’ long-term vision for the volunteers, described last week by the plenipotentiary minister Grzegorz Kwaśniak as “a fifth force after land, sea, air and special forces”.
(4) Wojciech Kaczmarczyk, appointed in January as government plenipotentiary for civil society and equal rights, has argued that the government has “had enough of militant atheists and enthusiasts of sexual revolution appropriating the principle of equality”.
(5) The original goal was for Obama to sign the "cap and trade" legislation – it passed the House of Representatives but awaits action in the Senate – just before Copenhagen so that he or his designated plenipotentiary could show up there waving it triumphantly.
(6) But some in Moscow have speculated that the more inflammatory tweets may be written by ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary Alexander Kramarenko, whose official statements have expressed similar arguments.