President
A president is a leader of an organization, company, club, trade union, university, country, a division or part of any of these, or, more generally, anything else.
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... election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore from Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of ... On November 5, 1996, President Clinton went on to win re-election with a substantial margin in the popular vote and electoral college ...
More definitions of "president":
- (noun): The office of the United States head of state.
Example: "A President is elected every four years"
Synonyms: President of the United States, Chief Executive
- (noun): The head administrative officer of a college or university.
Synonyms: prexy
- (noun): The chief executive of a republic.
- (noun): The officer who presides at the meetings of an organization.
Synonyms: chairman, chairwoman, chair, chairperson
- (noun): An executive officer of a firm or corporation.
Famous quotes containing the word president:
“We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.”
—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)
“Every President wants to do right.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
““It’s hard enough to adjust [to the lack of control] in the beginning,” says a corporate vice president and single mother. “But then you realize that everything keeps changing, so you never regain control. I was just learning to take care of the belly-button stump, when it fell off. I had just learned to make formula really efficiently, when Sarah stopped using it.””
—Anne C. Weisberg (20th century)