0 a ruler who has a lot of power, especially one whose power is not limited, for example by the existence of a parliament -- 权力大的统治者；（尤指不受议会等约束的）君主
He was, in fact, a private sector potentate who stole his workers' pension money.
They must say that they will defend the monarch from "foreign prelates, potentates and powers".
By virtue of what inherent qualities was this potentate endowed with this mass of coupons?
Who will go to the expense of bidding when such a potentate with such a purse enters the fray?
It may be that on occasions, tired after their day's work, perhaps entertaining visiting potentates, they drive home in their company car.
Yes, they will, at least so far as the probabilities of the potentate's continuing to be generous look pretty good.
The latter were already condemned in 1739 as morally corrupt, vain petty potentates who squandered what little credit and resources they possessed on indigent luxury.
Is there no means of altering the policy so as to save this payment of £5,000 to this independent potentate?
