Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The office and dignity of president; presidency.
  • noun The term for which a president holds his office.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The office and dignity of president; presidency.

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  • noun The office and dignity of president; presidency.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the office and function of president

Etymologies

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president +‎ -ship

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Examples

  • Number 7, Vice-President, refers not to people like Dick Cheney, but to something I notice in start-ups, where everyone in at the founding and/or with substantial shareholdings gets an honorary vice-presidentship for their troubles.

    PSP Plans 2008

  • It is typical that so many people can only see failures in President George W. Bush's eight year presidentship.

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

  • In 1998, he promised to resign from his party presidentship while becoming the prime minister.

    Head of State, Prime Minister, Defence Minister and Party President: Four in One 2008

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I am saying that General Pervez Musharraf, his lifetime (ph) presidentship (ph) is needed for Pakistan, and the majority of the people like him.

    CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2007 2007

  • I found a few of the statements in this post rather curious (i.e., the expectations of the framers and Rooseveltian vs. homecoming king presidentship).

    Balkinization 2004

  • He himself had good reason for thinking so, as he had obtained the presidentship by rebelling while in charge of this same fortress.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • The medium of constitutional monarchy or hereditary presidentship recommends itself under existing circumstances to the more advanced peoples, and with good reason; we nowhere find a prevalence of those manly virtues, disinterestedness and self-sacrifice to the

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • He himself had good reason for thinking so, as he had obtained the presidentship by rebelling while in charge of this same fortress.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • We have store of powerful friends; if nothing else offer, and we be in much haste, at least a presidentship may be given us: and a wife with some money, that she increase not our charges: and this shall be the bound of desire.

    The Confessions 1999

  • A successful medical career which promised to end in a presidentship of a college and a baronetcy, had been cut short by his sudden inheritance of a considerable sum from a grateful patient, which had rendered him independent for life, and had enabled him to turn his attention to the more scientific part of his profession, which had always had a greater charm for him than its more practical and commercial aspect.

    Beyond the City Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1982

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