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 his 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 (məktl prezdant)
• Arabic: نائب الرئيس‎
• Armenian: փոխնախագահ (hy) (pʿoxnaxagah)
• Catalan: vicepresident (ca) m, vicepresidenta (ca) f
• Cebuano: bise presidente
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 副總統 (zh), 副总统 (zh) (fùzǒngtǒng)

• Czech: viceprezident (cs) m
• Danish: vicepresident c
• Dutch: vicepresident (nl) m, vicevoorzitter (nl) m
• Esperanto: vicprezidanto
• Faroese: varaforseti m
• Finnish: varapresidentti (fi)
• French: vice-président (fr) m
• Galician: vicepresidente m, vicepresidenta f
• Georgian: ვიცე-პრეზიდენტი (vice-ṗrezidenṭi)
• German: Vizepräsident (de) m
• Greek: αντιπρόεδρος (el) m or f (antipróedros)
• Hebrew: סגן נשיא‎
• Hungarian: alelnök (hu)
• Ido: viceprezidanto (io)
• Italian: vicepresidente (it) m, vicepresidentessa f

• Japanese: 副大統領 (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
• Persian: معاون رئیس‎
• Polish: wiceprezydent (pl) m
• 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
• Spanish: vicepresidente (es) m, vicepresidenta (es) f
• Swedish: vicepresident c
• Tagalog: puli-pangulo
• Urdu: نائب صدر‎
• Vietnamese: phó chủ tịch, phó tổng thống
• Yiddish: וויצע פּרעזידענט‎ (vitse prezident)