acting president

collocation in English

meaningsofactingandpresident

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acting
adjective
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/ˈæk.tɪŋ/us
/ˈæk.tɪŋ/
someone who does a job for a short time while the person who usually does that job is ...
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president
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprez.ɪ.dənt/us
/ˈprez.ɪ.dənt/
(the title given to) the person who has the highest political position in a country that is a republic and who, in some of these countries, is the leader of ...
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(Definition ofactingandpresidentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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During the last two years of his life he wasactingpresidentof the college.
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He served under the first six presidents of the institution and even served asactingpresidentthree times.
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He later becameactingpresidentof company in 1983 and became deputy minister of science on the following year.
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He became the university'sactingpresidentin 1957, then president in 1959 and continuing to 1962.
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He remains the only person to have held office both as a president andactingpresident.
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He was serving asactingpresidentof the university at the time of his death.
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Anactingpresidentwas chosen, who proposed that the opera reorganize rather than shut down.
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In 1925, he served as theactingpresidentof the university for about four months.
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She served asactingpresidentuntil 1914, then as vice president.
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During a portion of that time, from 1930 to 1932, he provided leadership as theactingpresident.
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If the presidency became vacant, the minister of foreign affairs could serve asactingpresidentuntil the legislature voted to elect a successor.
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With the president on sabbatical, theactingpresidentgave the nod and its first use was on the door of a campus truck.
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He was a member of the faculty and in 1991, was theactingpresidentof the college.
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However, the governor may appoint anactingpresidentto act in the president's absence.
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Chern was theactingpresidentof the institute.
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Theactingpresidentordered him away for calling for the overthrow of the government in wartime.
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He had effectively beenactingpresidentearlier, since his father was ill during the period prior to his passing.
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He was appointedactingpresidenta number of times during this period.
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He was one of the pioneers of the study of limnology, and served asactingpresidentof the university from 1900 to 1903 and as president from 1918 to 1925.
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In 1955, he was namedactingpresident, and became the permanent president later that year.
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