N-COUNT 有名无实的首脑;傀儡 If someone is the figurehead of an organization or movement, they are recognized as being its leader, although they have little real power.
The President will be little more than a figurehead. 总统将不过是个傀儡而已。
(旧时的)艏饰像 A figurehead is a large wooden model of a person that was put just under the pointed front of a sailing ship in former times.