Definition of president

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President (n.) One who is elected or appointed to preside; a presiding officer, as of a legislative body..

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Preside :: Preside (v. i.) To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate..
President :: President (n.) One who is elected or appointed to preside; a presiding officer, as of a legislative body..
Territory :: Territory (n.) In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province..
Presidency :: Presidency (n.) One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president..
President :: President (n.) The chief executive officer of the government in certain republics; as, the president of the United States..
Remove :: Remove (v. t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters..
Senate :: Senate (n.) In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students..
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college..
Fill :: Fill (a.) To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair..
President :: President (n.) A protector; a guardian; a presiding genius.
President :: President (n.) Precedent.
Vice :: Vice (prep.) Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc..
President :: President (a.) Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.
Veto :: Veto (n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power..
Gift :: Gift (v. t.) The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President..
Presidency :: Presidency (n.) The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency..
Septennate :: Septennate (n.) A period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office..
Landamman :: Landamman (n.) The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.
Federalist :: Federalist (n.) An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington..
Elect :: Elect (v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor..
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