English edit

Etymology edit

co- +‎ governor

Noun edit

cogovernor (plural cogovernors)

  1. Someone who governs something together with someone else
    • 1988 June 17, Harold Henderson, “Big Ideas”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      Students [] are cogovernors in the Assembly of Shimer College (which sets policy under the board of trustees and is constituted as "a participatory democracy"), and cosustainers of the college's day-to-day operations.