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Definition: Presidency |
PresidencyNoun1. The tenure of a president; "things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration". 2. The office and function of president; "Andrew Jackson expanded the power of the presidency beyond what was customary before his time". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "presidency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
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Satire | PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PresidencySynonyms: administration (n), presidential term (n), presidentship (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | Reign, regime, dynasty; directorship, dictatorship; protectorate, protectorship; caliphate, pashalic, electorate; presidency, presidentship; administration; proconsul, consulship; prefecture; seneschalship; magistrature, magistracy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Presidency |
| English words defined with "presidency": Andrew Jackson ♦ Jackson, Jacksonian ♦ Old Hickory ♦ Presidence, Presidencies, presidential, presidentship, Prytanis, Prytany ♦ remain ♦ Victoria Clafin Woodhull ♦ Woodhull. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "presidency": confessional procedure ♦ Versaillese. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "presidency": Madras. (references) |
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Screenplays | Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency. (Top Secret!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker) You're trying to hijack my presidency! (24; writing credit: Mark Clompus; Marvin Close) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Presidency NBC White Paper: The Age of Kennedy - Part II (1966) Peanuts to the Presidency (1978) | |
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 | The great American osculator -- Uncle Billy kissing his way to the Presidency. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The story that I've given up the race for the Presidency is bunk. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | If Bryan came to the Presidency. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Senator D.B. Hill chasing "Presidency" phantom while his Senate duties gather cobwebs. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Politician riding train to the 1928 presidency. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Phyllis Schlafly (right), half-length portrait, facing right, with Mrs. Gladys O'Donnell (left), the opposing candidate for the presidency of the National Federation of Republican Women at the Women's Press Club, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Miguel Alemán, candidate for the Mexican presidency, surrounded by supporters, on his way to make a speech, Mexico City. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hon. James Buchanan, democratic candidate for the presidency, 1856 / lith. & pub. by Th. Rabuske, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Republican candidate for the presidency, 1860 / Grozelier ; painted by Hicks ; lith. by L. Grozelier, Boston. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pointing to the Presidency : a journal of political opinion published by The New Democratic Coalition of New York, 1972. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency. |
Theodore Roosevelt | In any event, even if I am beaten you must remember that we have had three years of great enjoyment out of the Presidency and that we are mighty lucky to have had them. |
Thomas Jefferson | No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. |
Wendell Phillips | You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up hope of the Presidency. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This synod was held at Notre Dame, and commenced its sessions on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency of Cardinal Fesch. |
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Business | The French government plans to use its presidency of the European Union begun on July 1, 2000 to propose an implementation of this system throughout Europe. (references) | |
Kim Dae-jung assumed presidency over Korea under tumultuous circumstances in February 1998, but the fact that the nation was experiencing a financial crisis made calls for economic reform not only easier to implement than had the country been in a period of stability, but also a virtual necessity. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Poland | The Broadcasting Law on radio and television also requires public television to provide direct media access to the main state institutions, including the presidency, "to make presentations or explanations of public policy." The President and the Prime Minister have complained occasionally of the other's abuse of the access privilege. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | In response private newspapers did not publish on September 21, 2000, and on September 22, 2000, journalists marched from the headquarters of the journalists' union to the presidency. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | After forcing Beugre to show them where he lived, the soldiers beat him and left him on the side of an Abidjan road near the presidency. (references) | |
Economic History | Guyana | She was Guyana's first female prime minister and vice president, two roles she performed concurrently before being elected to the presidency. (references) |
Czech Republic | This discontent expressed itself with the removal of Novotny from party leadership in January 1968 and from the presidency in March. (references) | |
Kyrgyzstan | In an upset victory, Askar Akayev, the liberal President of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences, was elected to the Presidency in October 1990. The following January, Akayev introduced new government structures and appointed a new government comprised mainly of younger, reform-oriented politicians. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cameroon | The BLI, which received extensive training from Israeli military consultants, reports directly to the Presidency. (references) |
Argentina | Judge Canicoba Corral has charged General Videla with involving Argentina in this illicit operation during his de facto presidency. (references) | |
Turkey | In August 2000, Parliament passed a law creating a Human Rights Presidency that is intended to monitor the implementation of legislation relating to human rights. (references) | |
Minorities | India | In July Salem Sessions Court of Tamil Nadu sentenced 17 persons to life imprisonment in a case relating to the killing of six Dalits, including the president of Melalvalavu Panchayat (local authority), in 1997. The murder was the result of a longstanding feud between Dalits and a dominant peasant caste, exacerbated by the Panchayat elections of 1996. According to press reports, some members of the higher caste disagreed with the State Election Commission's decision to reserve the Melavalavu Panchayat presidency for Dalits, and forcibly closed the Panchayat office for several days. (references) |
Political Economy | Kazakhstan | There was increasing centralization of power within the presidency in 1997-98, when the presidential administration took on some of the responsibilities of line ministries. (references) |
Paraguay | Colorado Party Senator Luis Gonzalez Macchi assumed the presidency in March 1999; in August 2000, voters elected Julio Cesar Franco of the Liberal Party to be Vice President. (references) | |
Political Rights | Singapore | The Government also has placed significant obstacles in the way of opposition political figures' candidacy for the presidency, a largely ceremonial position that nonetheless has significant budget oversight powers, as well as some powers over civil service appointments and internal security affairs. (references) |
Somalia | Both Yusuf and Jama continued to claim the presidency, and efforts continued to resolve the conflict at year's end. (references) | |
Vietnam | Party control over the selection of candidates in elections for the National Assembly, the presidency, the prime ministership, and local government undermines this right. (references) | |
Women | South Africa | The Office on the Status of the Women, located in the Presidency, reported in the 2000 National Policy Framework for Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality that "there are few support structures for victims of rape. (references) |
Worker Rights | Zambia | The ZCTU is a member of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, and a citizen currently holds the presidency of that body. (references) |
Venezuela | The Chavez Government, which had endorsed a FBT candidate, Artistobulo Isturiz, claimed that massive fraud had decided the election and refused to recognize Ortega as the winner; however, Ortega assumed the presidency of the CTV despite a threat by the Government to disqualify his election. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Robert Novak | Chairman Leahy, the best comparison on the confirmation of judges, I think, for how George W. Bush has done is how the last Republican president did in the first two years of his presidency with a Democratic Senate, and that happened to be his father. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Rutherford Hayes | 1877-1881 | Upon one point there is entire unanimity in public sentiment--that conflicting claims to the Presidency must be amicably and peaceably adjusted, and that when so adjusted the general acquiescence of the nation ought surely to follow. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | I am glad to be a part of the peaceful transfer of the vast power of the Presidency from my hands to his. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | A year ago, in assuming the tasks of the Presidency, I said that few generations, in all history, had been granted the role of being the great defender of freedom in its hour of maximum danger. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Most of the great events in his Presidency are part of a larger sequence extending back through several years and extending back through several other administrations. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The presidency is serious business. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | You have changed the face of Congress, the Presidency, the political process itself. |
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| "Presidency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.57% of the time. "Presidency" is used about 986 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.57% | 962 | 7,565 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.03% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (common) | 0.41% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 986 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "presidency": during his presidency ♦ presidency of the court ♦ run for presidency ♦ vice presidency. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "presidency": vice-presidency. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "presidency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | presidencë (presidentship), kryesi (directorate, headship), drejtim i firmës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقر الرئاسة, مدة الرئاسة, إشراف (command, direction, domination, hand, nobility, overlooking, oversight, stewardship, superintendence, supervision, surveillance), رئاسة محكمة, رئاسة حكومة, رئاسة جلسة, رئاسة الجمهورية (presidentship), رئاسة (chiefship, leadership). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | президентство (presidentship), президентски пост, председателство (chairmanship, presidentship), председателски пост. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 總統任期 (term of office), 會長團 , 总统的职务 (Presidencies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | předsednictví (chair, chairmanship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rotationsordning (rotating presidency, rotating system of appointments by Member States). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقام یادوره ریاست جمهوری , نظارت (Proctorship, Stewardship, Supervision, Surveillance), ریاست . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | presidenttikausi, presidentinvirka (office of president). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | présidence de la république (presidentship), présidence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vorsitz (chair, chairmanship, leadership), Präsidialperiode. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προεδρία (chairmanship, presidentship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שיאות (ethnarchy, presidium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elnökség (chairmanship, presidentship, presidium), elnöklés, elnöki tisztség (chair), elnöki méltóság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kepresidenan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | presidenza (chair, chairmanship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 大統 の後'襲う (to succeed to the presidency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いとうりょうのあと'おそう (to succeed to the presidency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 대통 직 (Presidencies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | eaghtyraneys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esidencypray presidência (chair, chairmanship, presidentship), funções de presidente. (various references) preşedinţie (chair, chairmanship). (various references) президентство (presidentship). (various references) predsedništvo (chair, chairmanship, presidentship). (various references) presidencia (chair, chairmanship, presidentship), rectoría (Lodge, rectory), dirección de (lift, steerage, tack). (various references) presidium (presidium), presidentskap (presidentship), ordförandeskap (chair, chairmanship), befattning som verkställande direktör. (various references) cumhurbaşkanlığı, başkanlık süresi (presidential term), başkanlık (chairmanship, chieftainsy, headship, presidential, presidentship). (various references) головування (chair, chairmanship, presidentship), президентство (presidentship). (various references) chức chủ tịch (chairmanship, presidentship), bang quận Ben-gan. (various references) llywyddiaeth, arlywyddiaeth. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Presidency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Previdencia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "presidency" (pronounced pre"zudunsē) |
| 9 | -r e" z u d u n s ē | residency. |
| 5 | -d u n s ē | ascendancy, ascendency, dependency, despondency, redundancy, stridency, tendency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, agency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, proficiency, regency, relevancy, resiliency, solvency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-n-p-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: crispened, residency. | |
-2 letters: dyspneic, precised, prescind. | |
-3 letters: cinders, cindery, crisped, crispen, decerns, decries, deicers, deniers, discern, erepsin, nereids, piecers, pierced, pierces, pincers, pinders, precise, preside, princes, pyrenes, recipes, repined, repines, rescind, resined, ripened, scenery, sincere, speired, spencer, spender, spicery, spidery, spiered. | |
-4 letters: ceders, censed, censer, cerise, ciders, cinder, creeds, creeps, creepy, creped, crepes, crepey. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-n-p-r-s-y" | |
+4 letters: dryopithecines. | |
+5 letters: cyproheptadines, superintendency. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 73 69 64 65 6E 63 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e s i d e n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0073 0069 0064 0065 006E 0063 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50847185757071806991 |
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