Governing official in the absence or incapacity of a monarch.
1
Offer to help the regent any way you can in this crisis.
2
At sight of the prince regent the fellow reined in and saluted.
3
Evidently, you wanted to start the war while you were still regent.
4
The regent's family and favorites were given preferential allocations and prospered spectacularly.
5
One change allows the king to travel abroad without appointing a regent.