vice president

See also: vicepresident, vice-president, Vice President, Vice-President, and vice-président

English

Alternative forms

• vice-president

Etymology

From vice- +‎ president.

Noun

vice president (plural vice presidents) (abbreviation VP)

1. A deputy to a president, often empowered to assume the position of president on their death or absence.
2. An executive in a business in charge of a department or branch.

Synonyms

• (abbreviation): VP
• (senior administrator at a college or university): provost (US)
• (informal, jocular): veep

Derived terms

• junior vice president
• senior vice president
• veep
• vice presidency
• vice presidential, vice-presidential
• VP

 

Translations

deputy to a president

• Amharic: ምክትል ፕሬዝዳንት (məktəl pərezdant)
• Arabic: نَائِب رَئِيس m (nāʔib raʔīs), نَائِبَةُ رَئِيسَة f (nāʔibatu raʔīsa)
• Armenian: փոխնախագահ (hy) (pʿoxnaxagah)
• Belarusian: віцэ-прэзідэ́нт m (vice-prezidént), віцэ-прэзідэ́нтка f (vice-prezidéntka)
• Bulgarian: вицепрезиде́нт m (viceprezidént), вицепрезиде́нтка f (viceprezidéntka)
• Catalan: vicepresident (ca) m, vicepresidenta (ca) f
• Cebuano: bise presidente
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 副總統／副总统 (zh) (fùzǒngtǒng)

• Czech: viceprezident (cs) m, viceprezidentka f
• Danish: vicepresident c
• Dutch: vicepresident (nl) m, vicevoorzitter (nl) m
• Esperanto: vicprezidanto
• Estonian: asepresident
• Faroese: varaforseti m
• Finnish: varapresidentti (fi)
• French: vice-président (fr) m, vice-présidente (fr) f
• Galician: vicepresidente m, vicepresidenta f
• Georgian: ვიცე-პრეზიდენტი (vice-ṗrezidenṭi)
• German: Vizepräsident (de) m, Vizepräsidentin (de) f
• Greek: αντιπρόεδρος (el) m or f (antipróedros)
• Hebrew: סגן נשיא m
• Hindi: उपराष्ट्रपति m (uprāṣṭrapti)
• Hungarian: alelnök (hu)
• Ido: viceprezidanto (io)
• Indonesian: wakil presiden
• Italian: vicepresidente (it) m, vicepresidentessa f
• Japanese: 副大統領 (ja) (ふくだいとうりょう, fukudaitōryō), ヴァイスプレジデント (vaisupurejidento)
• Khmer: អនុប្រធានាធិបតី (a’nu’prɑtʰienietʰɨppa’dəy)
• Korean: 부통령 (butongnyeong)
• Latin: praeses vicarius
• Marathi: उपराष्ट्रपती m or f (uprāṣṭraptī)
• Persian: معاون رئیس (mo'âven-e ra'is)
• Polish: wiceprezydent (pl) m, wiceprezydentka f
• Portuguese: vice-presidente (pt) m or f
• Romanian: vicepreședinte (ro) m, vicepreședintă (ro) f
• Russian: ви́це-президе́нт (ru) m (více-prezidént)
• Scottish Gaelic: iar-cheann-suidhe m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: потпре́дседнӣк m

  Roman: potprédsednīk m

• Slovak: viceprezident m, viceprezidentka f
• Spanish: vicepresidente (es) m, vicepresidenta (es) f
• Swahili: makamu wa rais
• Swedish: vicepresident (sv) c
• Tagalog: pangalawang pangulo, bise presidente
• Turkmen: wise-prezident
• Ukrainian: віце-президе́нт m (vice-prezydént), віце-президе́нтка f (vice-prezydéntka)
• Urdu: نائب صدر m (nā'ib sadr)
• Vietnamese: phó chủ tịch, phó tổng thống
• Welsh: is-lywydd
• Yiddish: וויצע פּרעזידענט (vitse prezident)