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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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..
Levee :: Levee (n.) A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee..
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..
Placitum :: Placitum (n.) A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state..
Presidential :: Presidential (a.) Presiding or watching over.
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..
Elector :: Elector (n.) One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President..
Call :: Call (v. t.) To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen..
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..
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..
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..
Presidentship :: Presidentship (n.) The office and dignity of president; presidency.
Presidential :: Presidential (a.) Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election..
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 (n.) The chief officer of a corporation, company, institution, society, or the like..
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..
Message :: Message (n.) Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger; as, the President's message..
President :: President (n.) One who is elected or appointed to preside; a presiding officer, as of a legislative body..
Presidency :: Presidency (n.) The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency..
Inaugurate :: Inaugurate (v. t.) To introduce or induct into an office with suitable ceremonies or solemnities; to invest with power or authority in a formal manner; to install; as, to inaugurate a president; to inaugurate a king..
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