vice president
vice president noun: a deputy to a president, often empowered to assume the position of president on their death or absence.
Noun (1)
vice president (plural vice presidents, abbreviation VP)
Noun (2) capitalized: Vice President
Vice President (plural Vice Presidents)
- The holder of the secondary office to the President of the United States, who is first in line of succession to the President, and also acts as presiding officer of the United States Senate.
- Section. 4. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.1787 September 17, Constitutional Convention, “Article II”, in Constitution of the United States, Philadelphia, page 3
- The only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the electoral college votes as they have been cast.
The Constitution does not empower the Vice President to alter in any way the votes that have been cast, either by rejecting certain of them or...2021 January 5, J. Michael Luttig, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2021, 2:39:10; republished as The Washington Post, 5 January 2021
vice president meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
vice president in Hindi
- deputy to a president
- उपराष्ट्रपति uprāṣṭrapti, उपाध्यक्ष upādhyakṣ, उपसभापति upsabhāpti
vice president in Tamil
- துணைத் தலைவர்
vice president in Marathi
- deputy to a president
- उपराष्ट्रपती uprāṣṭraptī
vice president in Urdu
- deputy to a president
- نائِب صَدْر nāib sadr
More languagesFewer languages
- vice president in Telugu
- ఉపరాష్ట్రపతి uparāṣṭrapati
- vice president in Tagalog
- pangalawang pangulo, bise presidente
- vice president in Arabic
- نَائِب رَئِيس nāʔib raʔīs, نَائِبَةُ رَئِيسَة nāʔibatu raʔīsa
- vice president in Malay
- naib presiden, timbalan presiden, naib yang dipertua
- vice president in Indonesian
- wakil presiden
- vice president in Thai
- รองประธาน rɔɔng-bprà-taan, อุปนายก ùp-bpà-naa-yók, รองประธานาธิบดี rɔɔng-bprà-taa-naa-típ-bɔɔ-dii
- vice president in Vietnamese
- phó chủ tịch, phó tổng thống
Synonyms of vice president
Forms of vice president
| plural | vice presidents |
|---|---|
| abbreviation | VP |
| alternative form | vice-president |
| plural | Vice Presidents |
| alternative form | Vice-President |
Origin of vice president
From vice- + president.
Words formed from vice president
- executive senior vice president
- ESVP
- executive vice president
- EVP
- junior vice president
- JVP
- senior executive vice president
- SEVP
- senior vice president
- SVP
- veepstakes
- vice presidency
- vice presidential
- vice-presidential
- Vice President of the United States
- VPOTUS
- VP
- veep
Questions about vice president
- What does vice president mean?
- Vice president means a deputy to a president, often empowered to assume the position of president on their death or absence.
- What is vice president in Hindi?
- Vice president in Hindi is उपराष्ट्रपति (uprāṣṭrapti), उपाध्यक्ष (upādhyakṣ), उपसभापति (upsabhāpti). See Vice president meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is vice president?
- Vice president is a noun.
- What is the plural of vice president?
- The plural of vice president is vice presidents.
Words near vice president in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: vice president (page history and authors); Vice President (page history and authors); vice president (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఉపరాష్ట్రపతి (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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