Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office and dignity of president; presidency.
- noun The term for which a president holds his office.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office and dignity of president; presidency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The office and dignity of
president ;presidency .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the office and function of president
Etymologies
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Examples
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Number 7, Vice-President, refers not to people like Dick Cheney, but to something I notice in start-ups, where everyone in at the founding and/or with substantial shareholdings gets an honorary vice-presidentship for their troubles.
PSP Plans 2008
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It is typical that so many people can only see failures in President George W. Bush's eight year presidentship.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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In 1998, he promised to resign from his party presidentship while becoming the prime minister.
Head of State, Prime Minister, Defence Minister and Party President: Four in One 2008
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I am saying that General Pervez Musharraf, his lifetime (ph) presidentship (ph) is needed for Pakistan, and the majority of the people like him.
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I found a few of the statements in this post rather curious (i.e., the expectations of the framers and Rooseveltian vs. homecoming king presidentship).
Balkinization 2004
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He himself had good reason for thinking so, as he had obtained the presidentship by rebelling while in charge of this same fortress.
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The medium of constitutional monarchy or hereditary presidentship recommends itself under existing circumstances to the more advanced peoples, and with good reason; we nowhere find a prevalence of those manly virtues, disinterestedness and self-sacrifice to the
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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He himself had good reason for thinking so, as he had obtained the presidentship by rebelling while in charge of this same fortress.
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We have store of powerful friends; if nothing else offer, and we be in much haste, at least a presidentship may be given us: and a wife with some money, that she increase not our charges: and this shall be the bound of desire.
The Confessions 1999
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A successful medical career which promised to end in a presidentship of a college and a baronetcy, had been cut short by his sudden inheritance of a considerable sum from a grateful patient, which had rendered him independent for life, and had enabled him to turn his attention to the more scientific part of his profession, which had always had a greater charm for him than its more practical and commercial aspect.
Beyond the City Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1982
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