viceprefix
also vice- uk/vaɪs/us/vaɪs/used as part of the title of particular positions. The person who holds one of these positions is next below in authority to the person who holds the full position and can act for them:
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- She is vice-chair of the local Conservative party.
- I was vice captain of the hockey team.
- He is vice chairman of the debating society.
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Organizations - position & status
- a rung on/of the ladder idiom
- apparatchik
- associate
- back seat
- be a big fish in a small pond idiom
- betters 2
- brethren
- comrade
- echelon
- entry-level
- equal
- fellow
- founder
- low-level
- position
- role
- second class
- senior
- standing
- subordinate
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vicenoun
uk/vaɪs/us/vaɪs/vice noun (FAULT)
C2 [ C or U ] a moral fault or weakness in someone's character:
[ U ] illegal and immoral activities, especially involving illegal sex, drugs, etc.:
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Morally wrong and evil
- abhorrent
- amoral
- anomie
- arch-villain
- be rotten to the core idiom
- canker
- darkly
- evil
- evildoer
- go to the bad idiom
- godless
- hanky-panky
- heinous
- scandalous
- seamy
- seedy
- shocking
- shockingly
- wicked
- wickedness
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vice noun (TOOL)
[ C ] mainly UK US usually vise a tool with two parts that can be moved together by tightening a screw so that an object can be held firmly between them while it is being worked on:
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Tools
- adze
- Allen key
- anvil
- auger
- awl
- axe
- excavator
- grappling iron/hook
- grindstone
- guillotine
- hacksaw
- hatchet
- plunger
- rasp
- reamer
- sander
- sandpaper
- scissor
- scissors
- vane
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