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president

pre zuh dent

  • n  an executive officer of a firm or corporation
  • n  the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government
  • n  the chief executive of a republic
  • n  the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
  • n  the head administrative officer of a college or university
  • n  the office of the United States head of state

  • When historians look back at the 2008 presidential landslide, they won't focus on the fact that Barack Obama soon to be our 44th President and our first African-American .
  • The nation's third vice president had his strengths: he has been hailed as "one of the best presiding officers the Senate has ever seen.
  • At the age of 23, bushy-haired Leon Botstein became president of New Hampshire's Franconia College in 1970.
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  • Barack Obama in Financial Times
    On Wednesday, the US president said "war is bigger than any one man or woman, whether, a private, a general, or a president".
  • Colin Powell in International Herald Tribune
    Not only is the compensation fund that was created yesterday at the White House in an agreement reached between BP and President Obama not a slush fund and not a shakedown, rather it was the government of the United States worked to protect the... Joe Barton http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Barton&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGmdfpq-zjgIpAsuJROjL--jffs0Q Washington Post (blog) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/06/gibbs_on_gop_hard_to_tell_what.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEPIJEDI48qUWWQqpE5UOfSUoaMKQ Jun 17, 2010 77204 104098 president While calling her distinguished," Powell added, "I don't believe she's ready to be president of the United States, which is the job of the vice president."

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