Presidentnoun

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  An honorific for the head of state of a republic.

  • the President of the United States
  • I was not just the President of Southern Americans or white Americans. I was the President of all Americans. I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States. I did not think that our nation could endure much longer as a viable democracy if that injustice were allowed to continue.

Presidentname

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  A surname.

presidentnoun詞源 1/ˈpɹɛz.ɪ.dənt/

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  The head of state of a republic, sometimes also the head of government as well, particularly (US politics) the head of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States of America.

  • The vast majority of presidents have been male.
  • Well, nobody else can make a decision but me because I was the President and the final decision comes to the President, you know. I used to have a sign on my desk that said, "The Buck Stops Here." The buck stops at the president's desk when he's president of the United States, and he either makes the decisions or he lets them go by default, and you can't afford to do that when you're president.
• 2

  businessA person presiding over a corporation, usually an executive overseeing daily operations under a chief executive officer but sometimes a separate position held by a CEO.

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  A person presiding over a meeting.

  • The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,[…]
• 4

  A person presiding over a dinner or similar informal conversation.

  • At another dinner, the president, on the removal of the cloth, rose and said... We will conduct weself in sich a manner, dat massa will neber be sorry for what him do dis night.

presidentadj詞源 1/ˈpɹɛz.ɪ.dənt/

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  archaicOccupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.

  • His angels president / In every province.

presidentverb詞源 1/ˈpɹɛz.ɪ.dənt/

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  To act as president; to do presidential duties.

  • Although in other ways you couldn’t imagine two more dissimilar men, [Scott Wiener's] ferociously active spirit resembles the Bolshevik antsiness of Donald Trump. The current president is attractive to some voters who might not agree with his values, or his language, or even his policies, but who like that the president is, well, presidenting. Last year, Trump bulldozed the East Wing of the White House, one of the most recognizable historic sites in the United States. [In contrast,] In Democratic cities, people demand 38 meetings and three dozen environmental assessments before tearing down a crack den to build a nursery for sad orphans.

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