leadership

English

Etymology

From leader +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlidɚʃɪp/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈliːdəʃɪp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: lead‧er‧ship

• Audio (US):

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Noun

leadership (countable and uncountable, plural leaderships)

1. The capacity of someone to lead others.
   • 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Presentation”, in The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎^[1], Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, pages 28–29:

     Personal leadership is a fundamental of successful government. I do not mean the leadership of the band of good fellows and good schemers who followed President Harding, nor the purely perfunctory party loyalty which has part of the time in part of the country sustained the present Chief Executive. I mean that leadership which, by sheer force of mind, by chain of unanswerable logic, has brought friends and foes alike to enact vitally needed measures of government reform.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

     Shepard: You have a plan?
     Ambassador Udina: The galaxy needs leadership. Real leadership. When a crisis hits, we can't be paralyzed by debate like the old Council.
     Ambassador Udina: The new Council must rule with a single voice. It must be assembled from one species alone -- humanity!

2. A group of leaders.
   • 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     People who talk about an imminent possibility of war seldom pose this question: What would North Korea’s leadership get from unleashing a war that they are likely to lose in weeks, if not days?

3. The office or status of a leader.

Derived terms

• attitude reflects leadership
• deckplate leadership
• e-leadership
• leadership spill

 

Translations

capacity to lead

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: قِيَادَة f (qiyāda)
• Armenian: ղեկավարություն (hy) (ġekavarutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: rəhbərlik, liderlik
• Belarusian: лі́дарства n (lídarstva)
• Bulgarian: ли́дерство n (líderstvo)
• Catalan: lideratge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 領導能力 / 领导能力 (zh) (lǐngdǎo nénglì)

• Czech: vůdcovství n
• Danish: førerskab n
• Dutch: voorzitterschap (nl) n, leiderschap (nl) n
• Esperanto: kondukemeco
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: johtajuus (fi)
• French: autorité (fr) f, charisme (fr) f, leadership (fr) m
• Georgian: წინამძღვრობა (c̣inamʒɣvroba), ლიდერობა (lideroba), ხელმძღვანელობა (xelmʒɣvaneloba), მეთაურობა (metauroba)
• German: Führung (de) f, Leitung (de) f
• Hungarian: vezetői képesség (hu)
• Indonesian: kepemimpinan (id)
• Italian: leadership (it) f, carisma (it) f, autorità (it) f
• Japanese: リーダーシップ (ja) (rīdāshippu), 指導力 (しどうりょく, shidōryoku)
• Kazakh: қолбасылық (qolbasylyq), қолбасшылық (qolbasşylyq), лидерлік (liderlık)
• Korean: 지도력(指導力) (ko) (jidoryeok), 리더십 (rideosip)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سەرکردەیی (serkirdeyî)

• Kyrgyz: лидерлик (liderlik), лидерчилик (lidercilik), башчылык (ky) (başcılık), баштоочулук (baştooculuk)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: водство n (vodstvo)
• Malay: kepimpinan (ms)
• Maori: hautūtanga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: манлайлал (mn) (manlajlal)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ledelse m

• Old English: lādtēowdōm m
• Persian: رهبری (fa) (rahbari), سروری (sarvari), ریاست (fa) (riyâsat)
• Polish: przywództwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: liderança (pt) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ли́дерство (ru) n (líderstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: во̀дство n

  Roman: vòdstvo (sh) n

• Slovak: vodcovstvo n
• Slovene: vodstvo n
• Spanish: liderazgo (es)
• Swahili: uongozi (sw)
• Swedish: ledarskap (sv) n
• Tajik: роҳбарӣ (tg) (rohbari), сарварӣ (sarvari), раёсат (tg) (rayosat)
• Telugu: నాయకత్వం (nāyakatvaṁ)
• Thai: ความเป็นผู้นำ (kwaam-bpen-pûu-nam)
• Turkish: liderlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: лі́дерство (líderstvo)
• Uyghur: رەھبەرلىك (rehberlik)
• Uzbek: liderlik (uz), rahbarlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: khả năng lãnh đạo
• Welsh: arweiniad m

group of leaders

• Belarusian: кіраўні́цтва n (kiraŭníctva)
• Bulgarian: ръково́дство (bg) n (rǎkovódstvo)
• Catalan: direcció (ca) f, (military) comandament (ca) m
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: direzione (it) f
• Macedonian: раководство n (rakovodstvo)
• Malayalam: നേതൃത്വം (ml) (nētr̥tvaṁ)
• Polish: kierownictwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: руково́дство (ru) n (rukovódstvo)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: керівни́цтво (uk) n (kerivnýctvo)

office of leader

• Basque: buruzagitza, buzagitza
• Catalan: direcció (ca) ; prefectura (only if government office)
• Dutch: voorzitterschap (nl) n
• Finnish: johto (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: xefatura f
• Georgian: ხელმძღვანელობა (xelmʒɣvaneloba)
• Hebrew: רָאשׁוּת f
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: ductus (la) m
• Macedonian: раководство n (rakovodstvo)
• Polish: przywództwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: руково́дство (ru) n (rukovódstvo)
• Spanish: jefatura (es) f
• Ukrainian: керівни́цтво (uk) (kerivnýctvo)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} gvidado, ^{(please verify)} ĉefeco
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} juhtimine, ^{(please verify)} eestvedamine
• German: ^{(please verify)} Führung (de) f, ^{(please verify)} Leitung (de) f, (military) ^{(please verify)} Kommando (de) n
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} liderazgo (es) m, ^{(please verify)} caudillaje m

Anagrams

• dealership, perhalides, rape shield

French

Alternative forms

• leadeurship

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.dœʁ.ʃip/

• Audio:

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Noun

leadership m (plural leaderships)

1. leadership (the characteristics of leading by the leader)

   Synonym: chefferie

Further reading

• “leadership”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.der.ʃip/
• Rhymes: -iderʃip

Noun

leadership f (invariable)

1. leadership