vice president
Americannoun
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an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
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an officer next in rank to a president who serves as a deputy to the president or oversees a special division or function.
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U.S. Government. the officer of this rank who is elected at the same time as the president and who succeeds to the presidency upon the resignation, removal, death, or disability of the president.
Lincoln's first vice president was Hannibal Hamlin.
noun
Usage
Why is the term vice president in the news? On August 11, 2020, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced he selected California Senator Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate for the 2020 presidential election.
Other Word Forms
- vice presidency noun
- vice presidential adjective
- vice-presidency noun
- vice-presidential adjective
Etymology
Origin of vice president
First recorded in 1565–75
Example Sentences
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The vice president is one of the few people who can bring together top appointees across government.
When I worked at Bell Labs, it distributed organization charts weekly detailing the stacked hierarchy of supervisors, department heads, division heads and directors reporting up to a vice president.
“It didn’t cause an emergency, but I would say it caused concern,” said Mike Bryson, PJM’s senior vice president of operations.
Early data show wages are increasing for AI-exposed jobs that “place a high value on a worker’s tacit knowledge and experience,” wrote J. Scott Davis, an assistant vice president in the Dallas Fed’s research department.
From MarketWatch
FAHA, volunteer president of the American Heart Association and executive director of the Katz Institute for Women's Health and senior vice president of women's health at Northwell Health in New York City.
From Science Daily
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