presidency

American  

[prez-i-duhn-see] / ˈprɛz ɪ dən si /

noun

presidencies plural

1. the office, function, or term of office of a president.

2. (often initial capital letter) the office of president of the United States.

3. Mormon Church.

   1. a local governing body consisting of a council of three.

   2. (often initial capital letter) the highest administrative body, composed of the prophet and his two councilors.

4. the former designation of any of the three original provinces of British India: Bengal, Bombay, and Madras.

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presidency British  

/ ˈprɛzɪdənsɪ /

noun

1. 1. the office, dignity, or term of a president

   2. (often capital) the office of president of a republic, esp the office of the President of the US

2. Mormon Church

   1. a local administrative council consisting of a president and two executive members

   2. (often capital) the supreme administrative body composed of the Prophet and two councillors

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• presidencies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of presidency

From the Medieval Latin word praesidentia, dating back to 1585–95. See president, -ency

Explanation

A presidency is the executive office of a country, state, company, or other large organization. It's also the way to refer to the whole length of time a president is president: "Washington's presidency ended after two terms." When a candidate is elected to the presidency, that person becomes president, the head of a nation, organization, college, or company. The presidency of the United States has potential to change every four years, when the country holds elections. You can also use presidency to talk about a particular time period, defined by who was president them: "His presidency was a period marked by recession and job loss."

Example Sentences

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Burundi, which holds the rotating African Union presidency, nominated Sall earlier this year for the UN secretary-general position.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

This is the last Bastille Day parade of Macron’s presidency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

But in the most consequential foreign policy decision of Trump’s presidency to date, it was Graham who held sway.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The BBC asked the presidency how the agency obtained its office, staff and budget line, and why it favours an internal investigation over an independent one.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Alex had the presidency of the debate squad locked up.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

That sets the early portion of his second term apart from most presidencies over the past four decades.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026

Palace sources say he can play a unique role in supporting a UK and US partnership that has "survived many presidencies and of course many reigns".

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

Those efforts survived several presidencies until President Donald Trump officially established the program during his first White House term.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

It ignored watershed events of the Washington and John Adams presidencies, focusing almost exclusively on slavery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

The Order of St. Francis has thirty-eight convents, with guardianias and presidencies, in which are forty-seven priests.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander

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