Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various permanent executive committees in Communist countries having power to act for a larger governing body.
- noun The executive committee of the Supreme Soviet headed by the president in the former Soviet Union.
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- noun Such an executive committee
headed by thePresident of theSupreme Soviet .
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- noun a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session
Etymologies
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Examples
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The presidium is a presiding committee, composed of representatives of the groups and political factions represented in the assembly, in proportion to their numbers.
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The four, known as the presidium, effectively control the party, but their "election" came after months of infighting between Mujuru's supporters and those who want this congress's loser, Emmerson Mnangagwa, to replace Mugabe.
IOL: News 2009
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The four, known as the presidium, effectively control the party
IOL: News 2009
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Cherries* - Dehydrofreezing, cultivar selection (S. Gobbi et al.), Physicochemical characteristics and antioxidant activity of sweet cherries (M. Plessi et al.), Use of nets against fruit cherry fly (V. Ughini et al.), The slow food "presidium" of traditional Vignola cherries (S. Zocca).
John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 4: Organic Fruit Worth the Premium 2008
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The poised "presidium" of the 1980 interfactory committee — the directing summit of the workers 'confrontation with the state — was but a formal surfacing of a community of Baltic oppositionists populated by many worker activists who had labored in concert before KOR was ever formed.
Solidarity's Sources Goodwyn, Lawrence 1991
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A "presidium" has been created of these plus the foreign, interior, defence, health and social development, agriculture and regional development ministers.
Russia Blog 2009
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A "presidium" has been created of these plus the foreign, interior, defence, health and social development, agriculture and regional development ministers.
Russia Blog 2009
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Anyhow, now the central presidium urges me to scan my computer for credit card and social security numbers, a process that takes forever and yields a bunch of false hits — ten-digit clusters that are not, in fact, social security numbers at all, but rather the accession numbers of various objects that belong to other art museums.
The Cards 2009
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The service identified Mr. Yang as a vice president of parliament's presidium and a member of the political bureau of the party's Central Committee.
U.S. Expects to Restart Bilateral Talks With Pyongyang by January Jay Solomon 2010
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A photo from Korea Central News Agency, the nation's official news service, showed Mr. Carter greeting Kim Yong-nam, president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea.
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