president
presi·dent (prez′i dənt, -dent′)
noun
- ☆ the highest executive officer of a company, society, university, club, etc.
- the chief executive of a republic having no prime minister
- in parliamentary governments, the formal head, usually the presiding member of the legislative assembly or council
- any presiding officer
Etymology: ME < MFr < L praesidens < prp. of praesidere: see preside
president
n.
Head of state
chief executive, chief of state, commander-in-chief, the White House. Presiding officer
chief executive officer, CEO, director, leader, premier, chairman, moderator; see also administrator.
Converse of object
- elect: However, his attempts to get himself elected president of the United States ended in failure.
- assassinate: While in Baltimore, while on the way to the inauguration, Pinkerton foiled a plot to assassinate the president.
- re-elect: Paasikivi was re-elected president in 1950 for another six years in office.
Preposition: at
- aon: May be worth tony accidentally and president at aon ago and has.
Adjective modifier
- former: A similar call was made last year by a former Venezuelan president.
- honorary: She also became the honorary president of the Japanese Red Cross from 1947 to 1989.
- senior: Judy joined LexisNexis from Xerox Corporation where she was most recently senior vise president & general manager of Financial Services Industry, Xerox Europe.
- Venezuelan: He is the first Venezuelan President to be actively tackling poverty.
- Republican: Seven of its nine members were appointed by Republican presidents.
- executive: In 2002, he rose to executive vise president of software.
Modifies a noun
- stephen: Growth president stephen at least two us but we but it was.
- todd: Living suggesting that insurance program united president todd they must also.
- clinton: Like president clinton the bank to ECHO: Executive Council of Home Owners the property equaling.
- louis: Million last year federal prosecutors filed two pair and go with a. Up sex lies enterprises president louis cause activision's actual.
Noun used with modifier
- vise: Woo Sun Park, vise president of GSM product planning at Samsung said TV was becoming a commodity item for mobile phones in Korea.
- crossley: Companies ' headquarters and and finally it to insurers quot crossley president of.
- dick: Decade struggled in dick bell president new york state.
- arth: Raymond arth president to health care data sources there.
Possessives
- cryptologic: At wwwredfeltcom and key licensees risks it one of cryptologic's president and.
Preposition: of
- henry: Required insurers to buyers but are president of henry.
I am advising the former President, the governor of Florida and the President of the United StatesöI guess you could say I rule the world.
We are all the President's men, and we must behave accordingly.
All of you have met another Democratic President. I've never had that opportunity yet.
In America, any boy may become president. I suppose that's just one of the risks that he takes.
He [John Hoban] believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more home-like forany President of Irishdescent.It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts.
Dear J W, have the bank president finish the script.
Being president is like riding a tigerkeep on riding or be swallowed.
Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.
What you have just said, Mr President, speaks very well of you as a man. It does not speak well of you as a president.
I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
We elected a President, not a Pope.
Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuckas Speaker of the House Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.
I thought about it a lot and I thinkevery country ought to have a President.
We live in a time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president, a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. We are against this war, Mr Bush. Shame on you, Mr Bush. Shame on you.
George Meany could run for President, but then why should he step down?
Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.
He is a man who sits in the outer office of the White House hoping to hear the President sneeze.
I can't stop being President.
Put your brilliant mind to work fordresses for public appearancesthat I would wear if Jack were President of France.
If the President has a bully pulpit, then the First Lady has a white glove pulpitmore refined, restricted, ceremonial, but it's a pulpit all the same.
If you want to be vice-president, stand out here in the rain in your underwear and let everybody see what you're made of.
For eight years I was sleeping with the President, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!
He'll make a fine president. He was the best clerk who ever served under me.
Mr Clinton, according toToni Morrison, the Nobel prize- winning novelist, is our first black President, the first to come from the broken home, the alcoholic mother, the under-the-bridge shadows of our ranking system.
Mr President, I speak for sixty thousand dead!
Mr President, the president is dead.
The Constitution has never greatly bothered any wartime President.
I made a very deliberate decision not to ask the President, so that I could insulate him from the decision and provide some future deniability for him if it ever leaked out.
Oh, Mr President, do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality.
I cast only one voteöfor Jack. It is a rare thing to be able to vote for one's husband for President and I didn't want to dilute it by voting for anyone else.
There's one thing to be said about being Presidentö nobody can tell you when to sit down.
Will you please tell me what you do with all the vice presidents a bank has? The United Statesisthebiggest business institution in the world and they only have one vice president and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.
If you take the wrong coursethe President bears the 462 burden of the responsibility quite rightly. The advisers may move onöto new advice.
You get all the French-fries the President can't get to.
President Clinton returned todayto the university wherehe didn't inhale, didn't get drafted, and didn't get a degree.
Como te dec|¤a al principio, nadie hace nada y, naturalmente, soy yo,es elPresidente delaRep u¤ blica elque lo tiene que hacer todo, aunque salga como el cohetero. Con decir que si no fuera por m |¤ no existir|¤a la fortuna, ya que hasta de diosa ciega tengo que hacer en la loter|¤a. But, as I told you, nobody ever does a thing, and so naturally it is I, the President of the Republic, who has to do everything, and take all the blame as well.You might almost say that if it weren't for me Fortune wouldn't exist, as I have even to take the part of the blind goddess in the lottery.
The President is a walking dead man. He just doesn't know it yet.
Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.
Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
'Justice'was done, and the President ofthe Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport withTess.
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for the blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.
Apart from shamrock, the President should not wear emblems or symbols of any kind.
It was the summer when a president's penis was on everyone's mind, and life, in all its shameless impurity, once again confounded America.
The notion of a defence that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic in the President's vision.
This President will go down in historyas the only President who raised taxes before he tookoffice and cut spending after he left office.
Running a cemetery isjust like being President: you got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
All the securityaround the American President is just to make sure the man who shoots him gets caught.
Ronald Reaganwasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.
Here, indeed, was his one peculiar Fach, his one really notable talent. He slept more than any other President, whether bydayor night.Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.
Why should not a large shareholder sometimes name the president?
I'd be a terrific governora terrific president.
The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him he is not.
I thought I was Chief of Staff to the President, not to his wife.
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion.When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal But I brought myself down. I gave them a sword and they stuck it in and twisted it with relish. And I guess that if Ihad been intheir position,I'd have donethesame thing.
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