vice-presidency

See also: vice presidency

English

Alternative forms

• vice presidency

Etymology

From vice- +‎ presidency.

Noun

vice-presidency (plural vice-presidencies)

1. The office or role of vice-president.
   • 1980, Spiro Agnew, Go Quietly . . . Or Else‎^[1], New York: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 194:

     Richardson stressed that the war which had erupted in the Middle East the previous day made it doubly imperative to move me out of the vice-presidency.

2. The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the vice-president.
3. The time during which one is vice-president; a vice-president's term of office.

Translations

office or role of vice-president

• French: vice-présidence (fr) f
• Georgian: ვიცე-პრეზიდენტობა (vice-ṗrezidenṭoba)
• Hungarian: alelnökség
• Russian: вице-президе́нтство (ru) n (vice-prezidéntstvo)
• Swahili: umakamu wa rais

bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives

time during which one is vice-president

• French: vice-présidence (fr) f
• Russian: вице-президе́нтство (ru) n (vice-prezidéntstvo)