leadership
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- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlidɚʃɪp/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈliːdəʃɪp/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: lead‧er‧ship
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Noun edit
leadership (countable and uncountable, plural leaderships)
- The capacity of someone to lead others.
- 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!
- A group of leaders.
- 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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?
- The office or status of a leader.
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capacity to lead
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group of leaders
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office of leader
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leadership m (plural leaderships)
- leadership (the characteristics of leading by the leader)
- Synonym: chefferie
Further reading edit
- “leadership”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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leadership f (invariable)