Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or term of vicepresident.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
office orrole ofvice-president . - noun The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the vice-president.
- noun The time during which one is vice-president; a vice-president's
term of office.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the tenure of a vice president
- noun the office and function of a vice president
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Examples
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He will soon be resigning his Delaware seat to assume the vice-presidency, and Ted Kaufmann, a longtime aide to Senator Biden, has already been named to replace him.
Let the 111th Congress Begin - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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He will soon be resigning his Delaware seat to assume the vice-presidency, and Ted Kaufmann, a longtime aide to Senator Biden, has already been named to replace him.
Let the 111th Congress Begin - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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July 7th, 2009 7: 16 am ET very pathetic ... would she be the type to quit the vice-presidency mid-term? we are lucky that obama/biden won, Palin does not belong in politics.
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Another reason to celebrate the vice-presidency of Joe Biden.
2008 Election 2009
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Dick Cheney is the worst sort of war criminal who is now thumbing his nose at the Obama Administration because he's believes he got away with the constitutional travesties committed during his vice-presidency.
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I wanted Obama to run for president after he'd served two terms in the vice-presidency.
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Horne said: "There's no view across the FA that that sentiment holds any water, that we should be abandoning the British vice-presidency."
FA's Alex Horne says winter World Cup would be 'logistical nightmare' 2011
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But Horne insisted it would not sacrifice the home nations' permanent Fifa vice-presidency in order to curry favour with the game's world governing body.
FA's Alex Horne says winter World Cup would be 'logistical nightmare' 2011
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June 26th, 2009 6: 25 pm ET gregg: some people are fine electing moronic, chickenhawk [R] cowards into the presidency and vice-presidency, but a [D] comes along to clean up the mess caused by 8 years of abject [R] failure and he's crucified.
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Knowing this guy was just a few stolen votes away from the vice-presidency is sobering.
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