Definition of president

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President (n.) One who is elected or appointed to preside; a presiding officer, as of a legislative body..

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Veto :: Veto (n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power..
Septennate :: Septennate (n.) A period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office..
Interview :: Interview (n.) A mutual sight or view; a meeting face to face; usually, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the President..
Gift :: Gift (v. t.) The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President..
Call :: Call (v. t.) To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen..
Election :: Election (a.) The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor..
Presidential :: Presidential (a.) Presiding or watching over.
Provost :: Provost (n.) A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches..
Presidency :: Presidency (n.) One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president..
Presidential :: Presidential (a.) Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election..
Elect :: Elect (v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor..
Inaugurate :: Inaugurate (v. t.) To introduce or induct into an office with suitable ceremonies or solemnities; to invest with power or authority in a formal manner; to install; as, to inaugurate a president; to inaugurate a king..
Incapable :: Incapable (a.) Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under the government..
Territory :: Territory (n.) In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province..
Placitum :: Placitum (n.) A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state..
Remove :: Remove (v. t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters..
President :: President (n.) The chief officer of a corporation, company, institution, society, or the like..
President :: President (n.) Precedent.
President :: President (n.) The chief executive officer of the government in certain republics; as, the president of the United States..
Presidency :: Presidency (n.) The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison..
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