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单词 president
释义
president
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprez.ɪ.dənt/us
/ˈprez.ɪ.dənt/

presidentnoun[C](POLITICS)

A2
(thetitlegiven to) thepersonwho has thehighestpoliticalpositionin acountrythat is arepublicand who, in some of thesecountries, is theleaderof thegovernment:
总统；国家主席
President Kennedy肯尼迪总统
the president of France法国总统
[as form of address]Thank you, Mr/MadamPresident.谢谢您，总统阁下。
More examples
  • Boris Yeltsin was Russia's firstdemocraticallyelectedpresident.
  • Theformerpresident hasagreedtoactas anintermediarybetween thegovernmentand therebels.
  • The country's president isseekingtomendrelationswith theUnitedStates.
  • Severaloppositiongroupsarefightingtoremovethe president frompower.
  • She is Ireland's first woman president.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Leaders of national & regional governments
  • chancellor
  • chancellorship
  • chief executive
  • co-ruler
  • collector
  • FM
  • generalissimo
  • governor
  • governorship
  • gubernatorial
  • POTUS
  • premier
  • premiership
  • Pres.
  • state premier
  • Taoiseach
  • the power behind the throneidiom
  • Tánaiste
  • veep
  • vice president
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presidentnoun[C](ORGANIZATION)

thepersonwho has thehighestpositionin anorganizationor,especiallyin the US, in acompany:
（机构的）负责人，会长，主席；（尤指美国的）总裁，董事长
aformerpresident of theRoyalSociety皇家学会的前会长
mainlyUSShe's afriendof the presidentofthebank.她是银行总裁的朋友。
More examples
  • He was president of thecharityfor tenyears.
  • The new president of thecompanycalled atop-levelmanagementmeeting.
  • The president of mybankhas beennamedBusinessperson of theYear.
  • She told me that herfatheris the president of amultinationalcorporation.
  • There was atop-levelmeetingofoilcompanypresidents today todiscussthecrisis.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
People in charge of or controlling other people
  • acephalous
  • administrator
  • anti-management
  • authority
  • bureaucrat
  • conservator
  • controller
  • council
  • counter-power
  • dean
  • lord
  • management
  • manipulator
  • mistress
  • too many chiefs and not enough Indiansidiom
  • top dog
  • troika
  • tsar
  • vice president
  • yourlord and masteridiom
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Bosses & managers

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presidential
(Definition ofpresidentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

president| American Dictionary

president
noun[C]
us
/ˈprez·ɪ·dənt,-əˌdent/

presidentnoun[C](POLITICS)

politics & government
(abbreviationPres.)
thehighestpoliticalpositionin theUnitedStatesand some othercountries, usually theleaderof thegovernment:
Severalpeopleareconsideringrunningfor president, but none haveannouncedtheircandidacyyet.

presidentnoun[C](ORGANIZATION)

apersonwho has thehighestpositionin acompanyororganization:
The company’sboardofdirectorswillnamea new president atitsnextmeeting.

presidential

adjectiveus
/ˌprez·ɪˈden·ʃəl/
a presidentialcandidate
(Definition ofpresidentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

president| Business English

president
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprezɪdənt/us
HR,WORKPLACE
thepersonwho has thehighestpositionin anorganizationor,especiallyin the US, in acompany:
president of sthHe was president of thecharityfor tenyears.
The new president of thecompanycalled atop-levelmanagementmeeting.
POLITICS(alsoPresident)
in the US and some othercountries, thehighestpositionin thegovernment
See also
executive vice president
vice president
(Definition ofpresidentfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpresident

president
The president's partial and strong role, combined with some implicit and explicit pressures towards uniformity, further decreased potential challenges.
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More members move away from the president's position following each election than towards it.
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Since presidents do sometimes support such laws, the question becomes, under what circumstances will they do so?
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In the case of the president's party, the relationship between performance and the vote contradicts standard referendum theories of economic voting.
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Of the 273 executive appointments, 182 (or 66.7 percent) went to lame-duck members of the president's party.
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The incidence of such appointments should covary positively with the president's powers and negatively with the prime minister's electoral prospects.
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Evidence suggests that this governing board regularly exercises effective oversight of the president's activities.
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Unfortunately for presidents, the number of agencies created by statute has increased over time, as has the number of agencies with insulating characteristics.
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Individual decisions to insulate agencies from presidential control collectively and cumulatively are making the bureaucracy more difficult for presidents to manage over time.
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Strengthening this force was seen as undermining the president's grip on power and consolidating that of his deputy defence minister.
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Provincial rivalries for power were slowly eliminated, internal conflict reduced, and presidents succeeded one another observing the principle of no re-election.
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The names of kings, generals, and presidents have a prominent status and size within the inscriptions.
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Variation in a president's support/executive coalition in the legislature affects her ability to control the executive branch.
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Therefore, presidents have incentives to control bureaucrats who oppose their policies.
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The answer is that presidents have agency problems too.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithpresident

president

These are words often used in combination withpresident.

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acting president
He was serving asactingpresidentof the university at the time of his death.
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elected president
Either form of responsibility is sufficient to characterize the regime as mixed (given, of course, the existence of an independentlyelectedpresidentand assembly responsibility).
From theCambridge English Corpus
honorary president
Sheriffs would come and ask if they could be the honorary president of the local dramatic society, or something like that.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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