presidentnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈprez.ɪ.dənt/us/ˈprez.ɪ.dənt/president noun [ C ] (POLITICS)
A2 (the title given to) the person who has the highest political position in a country that is a republic and who, in some of these countries, is the leader of the government:
President Kennedy
the president of France
[ as form of address ] Thank you, Mr/Madam President.
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- Boris Yeltsin was Russia's first democratically elected president.
- The former president has agreed to act as an intermediary between the government and the rebels.
- The country's president is seeking to mend relations with the United States.
- Several opposition groups are fighting to remove the president from power.
- She is Ireland's first woman president.
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Leaders of national & regional governments
- chancellor
- chief executive
- demagogue
- Downing Street
- dynasty
- first lady
- head of state
- lieutenant governor
- Member of Parliament
- MP
- Number Ten
- Pres
- presidency
- prime minister
- prime-ministerial
- regent
- ruler
- veep
- vice president
- VP
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president noun [ C ] (ORGANIZATION)
the person who has the highest position in an organization or, especially in the US, in a company:
a former president of the Royal Society
mainly US She's a friend of the president of the bank.
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- He was president of the charity for ten years.
- The new president of the company called a top-level management meeting.
- The president of my bank has been named Businessperson of the Year.
- She told me that her father is the president of a multinational corporation.
- There was a top-level meeting of oil company presidents today to discuss the crisis.
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People in charge of or controlling other people
- administrator
- authority
- bureaucrat
- chairman
- chairperson
- force
- giant
- Goliath
- guiding spirit
- headman
- helicopter parent
- hierarchy
- leader
- marshal
- on high idiom
- operator
- overlord
- paymaster
- pillar
- powerhouse
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Bosses & managers
presidential
adjective [ before noun ] uk/ˌprez.ɪˈden.ʃəl/us/ˌprez.ɪˈden.ʃəl/
Examples
- There is a furious struggle going on between the two presidential candidates.
- Thousands of people lined the streets to watch the presidential procession pass by.
- Another candidate has now entered the presidential race .
- Six candidates are currently vying for the Democratic presidential nomination.
- Congress has rejected the recent presidential proposal on firearms.
B2
a presidential candidate
"Art and the Community" was the theme of her presidential address to the annual meeting.