Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The position or office of a leader: ascended to the leadership of the party.
- n. Capacity or ability to lead: showed strong leadership during her first term in office.
- n. A group of leaders: met with the leadership of the nation's top unions.
- n. Guidance; direction: The business prospered under the leadership of the new president.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The office of a leader; guidance; control.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The office, position or function of a leader.
- n. The quality of character and personality giving a person the ability to gain the confidence of and lead others.
- n. The people who serve as leaders of a group.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the ability to lead
- n. the body of people who lead a group
- n. the status of a leader
- n. the activity of leading
Etymologies
- From leader + -ship. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They are human – we all make mistakes – however when you are in leadership, your mistakes are excused but you're quality of leadership is below 0.”
“They seem to forget positions in leadership is not the head of a ghetto.”
“A change in leadership is just a drop in the bucket.”
“He told Fox that Rumsfeld has run the Pentagon through intimidation and that a change in leadership is needed.”
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“Marine General Paul Van Riper told Fox that Rumsfeld has run the Pentagon through intimidation and that a change in leadership is needed.”
Think Progress » VIDEO: 8th General Calls For Rumsfeld’s Resignation
“Katrina, not only exposed inadiquicies in leadership from the Whitehouse, but also the great lengths they take from abstaining from blame while laying blame on others.”
“This centre of excellence in leadership is located here in Toronto.”
“Now, one of the most difficult things in leadership, especially in industrial leadership, is what I think we can call "communications", which means how you get the intention of the top man right to the boy with the oily rag, right down through the whole organization.”
“This Mayor of ours appears to taking the word leadership and showing us its meaning.”
“Obama and his leadership is the BIGGESTS JOKE and the stock market shows it.”
House Dems to levy new tax on wealthy to pay for health care
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘leadership’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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Words related to knowledge
Words that relate to learning, knowing, being enlightened...
revelation, eureka, awakening, idea, sapient, astute, canny, intelligent, wise, sharp, shrewd, informed and 467 more...
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AFET - diplomacy
broker a peace ac..., client state, deadlocked peace ..., embassy, freeze, goodwill ambassador, hinterland, interfere in dome..., intervene personally, maintain technica..., mediation, no business as usual and 670 more...
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 340 more...
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...deserve, deserve better, destiny, determination, determine, determine the wil..., dialogue, differentiation, difficult question, disappointments, diverse, diversity and 751 more...
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One word book titles
More popular books often have shorter titles. Here is a list of one word book titles
blink, Freakonomics, roots, sugar, banjo, rising, cane, crave, emotions, love, until, dune and 118 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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-ship
quality; rank; ability; collective
friendship, kingship, leadership, readership, mothership, censorship, companionship, citizenship, courtship, dictatorship, internship, externship and 7 more...
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Bon Voyage
Words which ship
membership, sponsorship, readership, marksmanship, workmanship, trusteeship, censorship, championship, dealership, proprietorship, friendship, fellowship and 3 more...
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EN - overused words
approach, project, expertise, agenda, benchmarking, sustainable, competence, mainstreaming, streamlining, roadmap, action, evaluation and 26 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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timwright49's BigList
engagement words
employee engagement, management, culture, leadership, communication, opportunity, resources, engagement, core, speaking, facilitating, retreats that adv... and 3 more...
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Presencing Glossary
This list features some of the lexicon and distinctions of the act, process, field and realm of presencing as articulated by Claus Otto Scharmer (www.ottoschar...
leadership, presence, dialogue, open mind, open heart, open will, voice of judgement, cynicism, fear, source, field, social field
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