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pres·i·den·cy
\ˈprez(ə)dənsē, -si also -zədəns- or -zəˌden(t)s-\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Medieval Latin praesidentia, from Latin praesident-, praesidens president, ruler + -ia -y
1.
a. : the office of president
< elected to the presidency of … the hotel corporation — Current Biography >
< assumed the presidency of the university >
b. sometimes capitalized
(1) : the office of president of the U.S.
< the presidency … is preeminently a place of moral leadership — F.D.Roosevelt >
< an avowed candidate for the presidency — Nation >
(2) : the American governmental institution comprising the office of president and the various administrative and policy-making agencies directly associated with the president of the U.S.
< the presidency … was proliferating into countless people, councils, and commissions — Douglass Cater >
2. : the term during which a president holds office
< the third year of his presidency >
3. : the action or function of one that presides : superintendence
< such a body … met by his advice and under his presidency — F.M.Stenton >
< the presidency and guidance of some superior agent — John Ray >
4. : one of three great divisions (Madras, Bombay, and Bengal) of British India originally forming a district under a president of the East India Company and later a province under the administration of a governor
5. : a council of three in the Mormon Church consisting of a president and two counselors and having jurisdiction in spiritual or temporal matters throughout the church or a stake or within a smaller unit (as a quorum) — compare first presidency
6. : one of the four or five former divisions of the British colony of the Leeward Islands
< by the Leeward Islands Act, 1956 … each of the 4 presidencies became a colony — Statesman's Year Book > |