vice president

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

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• vice-president

EtymologyEdit

From vice- +‎ president.

NounEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from vice president

• junior vice president
• senior vice president

• veep
• vice presidency

• vice presidential, vice-presidential
• VP

TranslationsEdit

deputy to a president

• Amharic: ምክትል ፕሬዝዳንት (məktl prezdant)
• Arabic: نائب الرئيس‎‎
• Armenian: փոխնախագահ (hy) (pʿoxnaxagah)
• Catalan: vicepresident m, vicepresidenta f
• Chinese:

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

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

• 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 m
• Portuguese: vice-presidente (pt) m, 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
• Swedish: vicepresident c
• Tagalog: puli-pangulo
• Urdu: نائب صدر‎‎
• Vietnamese: phó chủ tịch, phó tổng thống
• Yiddish: וויצע פּרעזידענט‎‎ (vitse prezident)