0 (until 1917) the male Russian ruler: --
Tsar Nicholas I
1 a person who has been given special powers by the government to deal with a particular matter: --
The government has appointed a drugs tsar to coordinate the fight against drug abuse.
2 a powerful person in business or politics: --
a group of publishing tsars
3 czar --
He does not address the culture problem of fat government—the culture of regulation, initiatives, targets, grants, panels, boards, tsars and inspectors.
We were later told by the cancer tsar that directly allocated does not mean ring-fenced: it is only an aspiration.
Presumably, we would also have to create a homeland department to back that tsar.
The researchers have christened that the "tsar effect" for obvious reasons.
We employ drugs tsars to achieve absolutely nothing.
We have employed drugs tsars who go off in a huff after achieving absolutely nothing.
We are now to have a congestion tsar.
Not content with tsars, we now seem to have super-tsars.
