From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishviziervi‧zier /vəˈzɪə $ -ˈzɪr/ noun [countable] PGOan important government official in some Muslim countries in the past
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vizier• It comes from a text on the duties of a vizier and was probably copied from a much earlier document.• A second-rate Egyptologist unearths the diary of Eye, the grand vizier of the boy-king Tut.• The ageing king, Al-Kadir, was murdered and one of his viziers proclaimed the new overlord.• After 13 years as a slave, Joseph becomes Pharaoh's vizier.Origin vizier (1500-1600) Turkish vezier, from Arabic wazir 