Meanings
nounvice-presidency (plural vice-presidencies)
plural vice-presidencies · alternative vice presidency
- The office or role of vice-president.
Richardson stressed that the war which had erupted in the Middle East the previous day made it doubly imperative to move me out of the vice-presidency.
1980, Spiro Agnew, Go Quietly . . . Or Else, New York: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 194 - The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the vice-president.
- The time during which one is vice-president; a vice-president's term of office.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe tenure of a vice president
Similar
vice-presidential term
Broader
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*weyk-
- Latinvice
- Englishvice-
- Englishpresidency
- Englishvice-presidency
From vice- + presidency.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French vice-présidence, vice-présidence
- vice-présidenceoffice or role of vice-president
- vice-présidencetime during which one is vice-president
Hungarian alelnökség
- alelnökségoffice or role of vice-president
Russian вице-президе́нтство, вице-президе́нтство
- вице-президе́нтство (vice-prezidéntstvo)office or role of vice-president
- вице-президе́нтство (vice-prezidéntstvo)time during which one is vice-president
Swahili umakamu wa rais
- umakamu wa raisoffice or role of vice-president
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APA
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“vice-presidency.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vice-presidency. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vice-presidency,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vice-presidency.
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