a showbiz czar who is said to be able to make or break a career
Recent Examples on the WebIts director is sometimes known as the government’s regulatory czar because of the power the office carries within the federal bureaucracy. Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022 If not, Newsom’s new infrastructure czar may not be required to disclose his economic interests as other advisors in the administration do. Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022 But investors are cautiously eyeing an exit from the downturn this week after China's economic czar, Vice Premier Liu He, met with the country's most prominent tech CEOs to assure them the worst was over. Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 18 May 2022 The city gained infamy in 1918 when Czar Nicholas II, Russia’s last czar, was killed along with his family by Bolshevik revolutionaries during the Russian Revolution.New York Times, 4 May 2022 In an emergency meeting last Wednesday, China’s economic czar, Liu He, calmed markets with promises of support and caution for implementing polices that had spooked investors.Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022 The task of this new quality czar is central to the company’s larger ambition to challenge Tesla Inc. and other rivals for electric-vehicle superiority in the years ahead. Nora Eckert, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2022 His chief of staff, Ron Klain, had been the chief of staff to two vice presidents and was previously the Ebola czar, an experience that could be helpful during this pandemic.BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2021 Putin has for years lionized the 18th century monarch and keeps a bronze statue of the czar over his ceremonial desk in the Kremlin’s cabinet room. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 June 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
New Latin czar, from Russian tsar', from Old Russian tsĭsarĭ, from Goth kaisar, from Greek or Latin; Greek, from Latin Caesar — more at caesar