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presidency Definition

presi·dency (prez′i dən sē)

noun pl. -·cies

  1. the office or function of president
  2. the term during which a president is in office
  3. ☆ the office of President of the U.S.
  4. ☆ Mormon Ch.
    1. a council of three with local jurisdiction
    2. a council of three that is the highest administrative body
  5. Historical any of the three original provinces of British India

Etymology: ML praesidentia < L praesidens: see president

presidency Synonyms

presidency

n.

office of the president, chairmanship, position; see administration 2.

presidency Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • rotate: Reducing the role of the rotating presidency in foreign policy.
  • resign: Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
  • assume: On July 1st, the UK assumes the presidency of the European Union.
  • lay: Some have told us that lay presidency is as important to them as the ordination of women.
  • hold: UK presidency gives chance to set agenda The UK holds the presidency of the European Union for six months from 1 January 1998.
  • win: In late 2005, Morales won the presidency with a historic 54 percent of the vote.

Adjective modifier

  • six-month: Tomorrow was work in progress, giving people a sense of what we were trying to do in the six-month presidency.
  • Austrian: The next meeting will take place in April 2006 under the Austrian presidency.
  • Finnish: The framework for adopting common European immigration policies was set out under the Finnish presidency at the 1999 summit meeting in Tampere.
  • stolen: International news and analysis Mexican presidential election: Another stolen presidency?
  • Republican: Why can it shift so easily from Democratic or Republican presidencies, coupled with Republican or Democratic Congresses?
  • imperial: And that seemed to be just what was called for during this phase of the " imperial presidency.

Modifies a noun

  • member: The other presidency members were appointed by their respective republics and provinces.
  • conference: She floated the idea in a speech to a Belgian presidency conference.

Noun used with modifier

  • vise: This happened in the early days of Al Gore's vise presidency, when he was still trying to be a practicing environmentalist.
  • team: Team presidencies could keep those cherished features while ensuring that the Council has a system efficient enough to cope with an enlarged EU.

Possessives

  • country: Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxembourg aims to complete the review of the pact during his country's presidency of the European Union.

Preposition: in

  • election: Now those very same people are begging him to stand for the presidency in the current elections.

Preposition: of

  • union: Usually only when Ireland holds the rotating presidency of the union.
  • council: The presidency of the council rotates in Arabic alphabetical order.
presidency Quotes

We have a cancer within, close to the presidency, that is growing. It isgrowing daily.

—Dean,John

The definition of happiness of the Greeks†is full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, the Presidency provides some happiness.

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

Politics are much discussed, so are banks, so is cotton. Quiet peopleavoid the question of the Presidency†the great constitutional feature of this institution being, that directly theacrimonyof the last election is over, the next one begins.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

Just what does he think the Presidency is?

—Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)