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vice-presidency

vice-presidency noun: the office or role of vice-president.

Noun

vice-presidency (plural vice-presidencies)

  1. The office or role of vice-president.
    • Richardson stressed that the war which had erupted in the Middle East the previous day made it doubly imperative to move me out of the vice-presidency.1980, Spiro Agnew, Go Quietly . . . Or Else, New York: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 194
  2. The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the vice-president.
  3. The time during which one is vice-president; a vice-president's term of office.

Forms of vice-presidency

pluralvice-presidencies
alternative formvice presidency

Origin of vice-presidency

From vice- + presidency.

Questions about vice-presidency

What does vice-presidency mean?
Vice-presidency means the office or role of vice-president.
What part of speech is vice-presidency?
Vice-presidency is a noun.
What is the plural of vice-presidency?
The plural of vice-presidency is vice-presidencies.

Words near vice-presidency in the dictionary

  1. vice-consul
  2. vice-consuls
  3. vice-director
  4. vice-directors
  5. vice-presidencies
  6. vice-presidency
  7. vice-president
  8. Vice-President-elect
  9. vice-presidential
  10. vice-presidents
  11. Vice-Presidents-elect

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