0 someone who has the position of leader in an organization but who has no real power:
The president of this company is just a figurehead - the Chief Executive has day-to-day control.
1 a painted model, usually of a person, that in the past was attached to the front of a ship
2 someone who has the position of a leader but who has no real power:
They were merely figureheads and profit-takers in the final analysis.
Once we get away from the figureheads, the picture is very different.
We do not want a lot of figureheads and partisans; we want particularly broadminded people of general knowledge.
I would not presume to know whether they are figureheads.
Likewise, his councillors without the power of decision over financial priorities would become mere local dignataries and figureheads, without having the responsibility that local representative government now gives them.
They are merely the figureheads and representatives.
Mayors were short-term figureheads who changed mostly on practically an annual basis.
However, these men are mostly just figureheads today.
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