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presidency

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From Medieval Latin praesidentia. By surface analysis, president +‎ -cy.

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Noun

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presidency (countable and uncountable, plural presidencies)

  1. The office or role of president.
    After many years as a party leader, she finally ascended to the presidency.
    • 1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956‎[1], Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:
      The American people gave me the priceless privilege of serving them in the Presidency.
    • 2009 February 5, Adam Nagourney, “The pros and cons of admitting a presidential error”, in The New York Times‎[2]:
      The presidencies of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were marked by the resistance of both men to confessing mistakes; Bush's advisers long made it clear that he viewed such acknowledgments as akin to admitting weakness.
    • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in The New York Times‎[3]:
      The Clintons, who once seemed banished to the wilds of Westchester County, are once again the most powerful family in Democratic politics, with talk of another Clinton presidency already rife in Washington.
    • 2023 January 13, Peter Baker, “Presidents and Their Prosecutors”, in The New York Times‎[4]:
      For some, the political damage proved modest. But for others, the investigations came to consume and even threaten their presidencies, at least for a time.
  2. The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the president.
    Because of the president's lame duck status, the presidency was often hampered by congressional actions.
  3. The time during which one is president; a president's term of office.
    In France, a presidency lasts for five years.
    Ernest was a historian specializing in the presidency of Herbert Hoover.
  4. (Mormonism) A supreme local council made up of three persons; (usually capitalized; also First Presidency) the highest authority.
  5. (British, India, historical) One of the three original provinces of British India.
  6. (Christianity) The role of ordained clergy in the celebration of the Eucharist in some denominations.

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