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designated +‎ survivor

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designated survivor (plural designated survivors)

  1. (US, government) A member of the cabinet who stays at a physically distant, secure, and undisclosed location when the president and all those in the line of succession are gathered at a single location, so as to provide a successor should a catastrophic event occur where the others die or are incapacitated.