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{
"term": "presidency",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the job of being president of a country or an organization; the period of time somebody holds this job",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the current holder of the EU presidency"
},
{
"text": "She hopes to be the first woman elected to the presidency of the United States."
},
{
"text": "He was a White House official during the Biden presidency."
},
{
"text": "She held the presidency of the association for three years."
},
{
"text": "He became a candidate for the presidency."
},
{
"text": "That year he resigned his presidency of the Academy."
},
{
"text": "Three years into his presidency, he is more popular than ever."
},
{
"text": "under the presidency of Barack Obama"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["executive", "vice", "rotating"],
"verb + presidency": ["be nominated for", "run for", "stand for"],
"preposition": [
"into somebody’s presidency",
"under somebody’s presidency"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈprezɪdənsi/",
"audio": "pr/presidency/presidency__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈprezɪdənsi/",
"audio": "pr/presidency/presidency__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin praesidentia, from praesidere ‘sit before’, from prae ‘before’ + sedere ‘sit’."
}