presidentialpres‧i‧den‧tial /ˌprezɪˈdenʃəl◂/ ●●○ adjective [usually before noun] 
Examples
a presidential election the party’s presidential candidate
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
word sets- presidential candidates
- a presidential proclamation
- Aides to Republican Bob Dole had no immediate comment on whether the cash-strapped presidential candidate would campaign by bus.
- And his political resurrection offers campaign salvation to Bob Dole, whose presidential candidacy Atwater helped to destroy in 1988.
- In the end, the wisdom of prolonging the presidential mandate will be judged by what Hariri delivers.
- It has become a cliche to say that presidential candidates are being marketed like bars of soap and boxes of cereal.
- Sobchak said the presidium's decision was illegal since his instruction had been made in accordance with the presidential decree of January 1991.
- The cult of precision reaches its apotheosis in the presidential code name: Zero One.
- The vice presidential debate is scheduled Oct. 2 in Hartford, Conn.
WORD SETS► Officials
Collocationsaccession, nounaccredited, adjectiveaide, nounambassador, nounapparatchik, nounarchduke, nounassemblyman, nounassemblywoman, nounattaché, nounbadge, nounborough council, nouncaliph, nounchamberlain, nounchancellery, nounchancellor, nounChancellor of the Exchequer, nounchieftain, nouncity fathers, nouncity planning, nouncivil servant, nounclerk, nounclerk of works, nounCllr, commissioner, nouncomptroller, nouncongressman, nouncongresswoman, nounconsul, nounconsulate, nouncoroner, nouncouncillor, nouncouncilman, nouncouncilwoman, nouncourtier, nouncrown, nouncrown, verbcrowned head, nounCrown Prince, nounCrown Princess, nounCustoms and Excise, noun-cy, suffixczar, nounczarina, noundeputy, noundictator, noundignitary, noundiplomat, noundiplomatic, adjectivediplomatic corps, noundiplomatic immunity, noundispatch box, noundispensation, noun-dom, suffixdossier, noundrug czar, nounducal, adjectiveduchess, nounduchy, nounduke, noundukedom, nounelder statesman, nounembassy, nounemirate, nounemissary, nounemperor, nounempress, nounEurocrat, nounfigurehead, nounForeign Office, the, governor, nounGovernor-General, noungovernorship, noungubernatorial, adjectivehack, nounHome Secretary, nounimpeach, verbinaugurate, verbincumbency, nounincumbent, nounkhalif, nounkhan, nounlegate, nounlegation, nounlegislator, nounlocal council, nounlord, nounLord, nounmandarin, nounmarshal, nounmayor, nounmayoralty, nounmayoress, nounmember, nounMember of Parliament, nounMEP, nounMI5, nounMI6, nounminister, nounministerial, adjectiveminister of state, nounmission, nounmole, nounmonarch, nounmonitor, nounmotorcade, nounMP, nounNo. 10, occupy, verb-ocrat, suffixoffice, nounoffice holder, nounofficer, nounofficial, nounofficial, adjectiveofficialdom, nounofficialese, nounoverlord, nounpalace, nounpatriarchal, adjectivepatrician, adjectivePharaoh, nounplenipotentiary, nounPM, nounpost, verbposting, nounpotentate, nounPPS, nounprefect, nounpremier, nounpres., presidency, nounpresident, nounpresident-elect, nounpresidential, adjectivepress secretary, nounpretender, nounPrime Minister, nounprince, nounprince consort, nounprincess, nounproconsul, nounproconsulate, nounProvost, nounpublic servant, nounquango, nounqueen, nounqueenly, adjectiveQueen Mother, nounrajah, nounred tape, nounreeve, nounreign, nounreign, verbreshuffle, nounroyal, adjectiveroyal, nounroyalty, nounruler, nounsecretary, nounsenator, nounShah, nounsheriff, nounshogun, nounsovereign, nounsoviet, nounstatesman, nounsuccession, nounsultan, nounsultana, nountechnocrat, nountown clerk, nountown council, nountribune, nountriumvirate, nountroika, nountsar, nountsarina, nountzar, nountzarina, nounundersecretary, nounvice-president, nounviceroy, nounvizier, nounVP, nounwalkabout, nounwatchdog, nounwhip, nounWhite House, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► political/presidential ambitions
relating to a president: · His political ambitions were put on hold while he waited for a suitable opportunity.
► presidential authority· A number of constitutional amendments have increased presidential authority.
► a presidential campaign· Obama’s presidential campaign
► a presidential candidate· What is the system for selecting presidential candidates?
► a presidential commission· the Presidential Commission on Health Care
► a presidential contest· the 1987 U.S presidential contest
► a presidential coup (=in which power is taken from a president)· The new leader returned the country to democratic rule following his presidential coup.
► presidential/royal/ministerial etc duties (=duties that go with being a president, member of a royal family, a minister etc)· The prince is now old enough to carry out royal duties.
► a presidential election (=to elect a new president)· He is the Democrat Party’s candidate for the next presidential election.
► the presidential/Senate etc nomination (=a nomination for a particular job or position)· He was unsuccessful in his campaign for the presidential nomination in 2008.
► the presidential oath (=sworn by a new president)· the oldest person ever to take the presidential oath for the first time
► a presidential/Senate/mayoral race· He put $12 million of his own money into a Senate race.
► a presidential rival· His presidential rivals have vigorously attacked him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► address· Perhaps this was best articulated in the course of the presidential address to the Association by Sidney Lee in 1918.· His presidential address in New York dwelt on the importance of communication between science and industry.
► bid· Forbes, 48, a multimillionaire funding his presidential bid with his own money, has never held elective office.· He contends that an independent presidential bid by the Rev.· Phil Gramm ended his presidential bid Wednesday in much the same way he campaigned: short on emotion and long on economics.· Dole, who needs conservative activists' support for his presidential bid.· Mr Lieberman was the first senator to endorse Mr Clinton's presidential bid in 1992.
► campaign· How the next U.S. president would seize that opportunity should be a defining issue of the presidential campaign.· So much money had been put into circulation because of the presidential campaign that inflation was rampant.· Their face-off here was widely seen as a possible prelude to the presidential campaign in the year 2000.· Barry Goldwater touted it in his 1964 presidential campaign.· But their antipathy goes much deeper than one presidential campaign.· And when Dole wanted defense policy advice for his presidential campaign, he turned not to Thurmond but to Sen.
► candidate· Forbes is an unlikely vice presidential candidate himself, partly because of his intense attacks on Dole in the early primary states.· Alan Keyes, the only other Republican presidential candidate to participate in Louisiana, won no delegates.· He strongly implied that part of the plan involved funneling campaign contributions to members of Congress, state officials and presidential candidates.· Voters report that they learn more about presidential candidates from the nationally-televised debates than from any other campaign event.· Richard Starke believes Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes' flat-tax proposal is a fine idea.· Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole appears to have two minds when it comes to taxes.· Crucial tests of leadership confront the two presidential candidates.· But this year, presidential candidate Pat Buchanan added two other issues: trade and economic insecurity.
► contender· The tone then was set by conservative commentator and unsuccessful presidential contender Pat Buchanan, who forecast a cultural and religious war.· Edward M.. Kennedy and an adviser to presidential contender Jesse Jackson.· Commentator and presidential contender Pat Buchanan also supports a single income-tax rate.· Of the three leading presidential contenders in 1987, he was the closest to a normal politician.· The other unsuccessful presidential contenders, including Sen.· When the two presidential contenders finally left San Diego after their second 90-minute debate last Wednesday night, very little had changed.· The Arizona primary has made one thing clear: At least one presidential contender must drop out.
► contest· Last week Iowa delivered the first results of the presidential contest of 2000.· The number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire vote cast for the winner in the 1980 presidential contest.· It's a familiar routine, as Bush continues to work the centre ground in his presidential contest with Al Gore.· Both the Clinton and Dole campaigns had assumed the presidential contest in Ohio would go down the wire.· Dole is considered to be the man to beat in the Republican presidential contest.· Kerrey is considered a potential rival of Gore in the next presidential contest.· Politics was discussed at the dinner table every night, and in 1960, the Kennedy-Nixon presidential contest divided his parents.· But on Tuesday, Louisiana is set to hold the first caucuses of the 1996 presidential contest.
► debate· And didn't it, in many ways, shape the whole presidential debate, raising causes that others feared to touch?· That gradual shift in attitudes was first seen in the 1992 presidential debates between Bill Clinton and George Bush.· Some soccer moms waited in their minivans and station wagons, but none had their radios tuned to the presidential debate.· Last week in Boston Bush and Gore met for the first of the three presidential debates.· Kantor said the Clinton campaign proposed an initial presidential debate on Oct. 6· In a vice presidential debate with then-Sen.
► decree· The Assembly was dissolved by presidential decree on Oct. 12.· Under a presidential decree of Aug. 6, oil and gas export prices were deregulated soas to bring them into line with world prices.· Additionally, two presidential decrees on March 23 had been designed to cushion the blow of the price rises.· Sobchak said the presidium's decision was illegal since his instruction had been made in accordance with the presidential decree of January 1991.· The presidential decrees were, however, suspended after telephone negotiations on April 9.· Because of the paralysis of Weimar Reich stags, presidential decrees were rarely in danger of repeal.· Five million roubles had already been allocated to aid resettlement, and a presidential decree had created the legal prerequisites.
► election· The abstention rate among the 3,200,000 registered voters in the presidential elections was put as high as 43.7 percent.· And that is one reason why this presidential election is beginning to look so transparent and trivial.· The United States presidential election has been a calamity without precedent.· The impact of television in a presidential election can not be underestimated.· He explained his resignation on the grounds that he wanted to spend more time preparing his candidacy for forthcoming presidential elections.· My party had no chance to win the presidential election.· Mr Chirac seems to want to wait for the presidential election in 1995.
► hopeful· Republican presidential hopefuls have all claimed that they would take a firmer stance towards Moscow.· The party has broken ranks, with five of its nine presidential hopefuls calling for a review of the revisions.· Every four years, presidential hopefuls have learned, the New Hampshire mouse roars like lion.· The Arizona primary was supposed to winnow the field of Republican presidential hopefuls.· On Saturday night, the 476 convention delegates will question Republican presidential hopefuls.
► nomination· He is a heavy backer and advisor to Governor Bill Clinton, front-runner for the Democrats' presidential nomination.· Developments in presidential election campaign December saw several key developments within the presidential nomination campaigns of both the Democratic and Republican parties.· Bob Dole may have the Republican presidential nomination all but wrapped up.
► nominee· George W.. Bush, the putative Republican presidential nominee, but also by Rep.· In their day, presidential nominees were chosen by members of Congress meeting in caucus.· Run-off elections to decide finally on the presidential nominees, originally planned for Oct. 3, were rescheduled to Oct. 10.· Meeting in Chicago, delegates named Abraham Lincoln as their presidential nominee.· Any senator can hold up a vote on a presidential nominee without explaining why or even divulging the hold publicly.· The Republican presidential nominee exuded confidence and looked relaxed.
► palace· He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded.· She would even bring street urchins into the presidential palace to bathe them and treat their scabies and give them a meal.· Although she grew up in the country's presidential palaces, Megawati displayed no interest in politics until she was 40.· They left telephone lines at the presidential palace intact, allowing Diem to appeal to loyal units to rescue him.· At one point Dostam used fighter bombers to attack the presidential palace and defence ministry.· It was university women like these who surged into the streets in front of the presidential palace in Algiers to demand democracy.· It had also claimed responsibility for blasts near the presidential palace and government buildings last month.· He was welcomed in boardrooms and presidential palaces everywhere as the spokesman of worldwide Diaspora Jewry.
► politics· So far, the absolutist position has dominated Republican presidential politics.· New Hampshire, with a population of only 1. 1 million, has long had a disproportionate influence on presidential politics.· Frenzied fund-raising and free-wheeling spending transformed not only presidential politics but also House and Senate contests.· A day away from presidential politics for a junkie is guaranteed to shift perspective and challenge perception.· The Republicans had dominated presidential politics for almost twenty-five years when Clinton began his bid for the White House.· This represents a dramatic turn of events in presidential politics.· In presidential politics, winning is neither the only thing or everything.· In presidential politics, numbers like these are extremely tempting, particularly in a close election.
► power· Presidential decrees enacting reform Gorbachev used his emergency presidential powers to issue during October four decrees marking critical steps towards market reform.· He had a rare gift for casting presidential power in heroic terms.· He asked for approval of a constitution with sweeping new presidential powers in the failed referendum last week.· Because the president remained conscious during the operation, there was no need for a temporary transfer of presidential powers.· The talks focused on presidential powers and the distribution of seats in a new transitional Cabinet.· His interpretation of presidential power in such cases was evidently shared by some members of Congress.· What are the secrets of presidential power?· The contention is that presidential power should be implied from the aggregate of his powers under the Constitution.
► primary· Rosen has worked politically for Kennedy since his 1980 presidential primary run and developed a close friendship with the senator.· Every New Hampshire presidential primary is one for the history books.· And this presidential primary will be anything but standard.· By contrast, 11, 000 voters cast early ballots in the recent Super Tuesday presidential primaries.· The prospect of relative regularity at the beginning of the presidential primaries should not suggest it will be an unexciting campaign year.· The man making the humble request was Paul Tsongas, who just hours before had won the New Hampshire presidential primary.
► race· Then billionaire Ross Perot hinted he may rejoin the presidential race as an independent.· In the presidential race, the outcome was not unexpected.· The only serious contender left in the presidential race is Guei himself.· Phil Gramm of Texas, DiVall polled for Dole in his 1988 presidential race.· Lamar Alexander, who dropped out of the presidential race Wednesday, to endorse him in Nashville on Friday.· And even if the agency avoids further scathing, it is likely to become a hot target in the presidential race.· With Ross Perot off the track for now, Forbes is the only true outsider in the presidential race.· The presidential race is setting records.
► system· Thus in its latter years the Soviet Union was constitutionally a mainstream presidential system.· The presidential system offers checks and balances but does not ensure consistency between legislation and execution.· First, they examine the extent to which different presidential systems are likely to experience democratic breakdown.· Also, a presidential system can so balance power between legislature and executive that there are damaging stalemates and confusion of accountability.· Second, they demonstrate how different presidential systems produce a trade-off between the principles of democratic efficiency and democratic representation.· Even in presidential systems, the legislature has the power to overturn the executive by means of the extraordinary process of impeachment.· Britain, according to Jessop etal., is moving towards a presidential system of government.· Impeachment is quite rare in presidential systems.
► term· Menem did not have time to push through his plan before the end of his presidential term.· The frigid opening of every congressional and presidential term inspires a bounty of new proposals.· That has created a precedent which, it is argued, could also apply to the presidential term.· And a national debt that took 200 years to reach a trillion bucks, tripled in two presidential terms.· There was speculation during the campaign that 75-year-old Mitterrand might resign before the end of his presidential term.· A gaggle of Republicans dreams of winning one presidential term.· The Khatami camp never doubted that their man would win a second presidential term.
► veto· With those southerners on board, Mr Edwards believes Congress may have a chance of overriding another presidential veto.· The final vote was 57-41, well short of the 65 needed to override a presidential veto.· He said that if necessary he would use his presidential veto.· J.. Even if passed by the Senate, it faces a near-certain presidential veto.· A subsequent vote in the Senate failed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to overturn a presidential veto.· However, the measure faces a certain presidential veto if it clears the Senate.· If Congress and the administration are to avoid a head-on clash, and a presidential veto, a compromise must be struck.· It is not smart politics to sit back and wait for presidential vetoes and proclamations to bail us out of every jam.
a presidential election the party’s presidential candidate