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Presidency \Pres"i*den*cy\, n.; pl. Presidencies. [Cf. F. pr['e]sidence.]
The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.
The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency.
The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison.
One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president.
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n. (plural of presidency English)
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Usage examples of "presidencies".
If Hillary were president and Bill in the shadows - a reversal of their roles in the 1990s - their two presidencies would be as different as the two Clintons themselves.
Sandwiched in between the millionaire presidencies of Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Bush, the Clintons' willingness to cut corners to salt away some savings is not necessarily grounds for outright condemnation.
From 1826 to 1855, both included, there were committed to prison, in the various Presidencies, 1562 persons accused of this crime.
So little adapted is the atmosphere of a Custom-House to the delicate harvest of fancy and sensibility, that, had I remained there through ten Presidencies yet to come, I doubt whether the tale of "The Scarlet Letter" would ever have been brought before the public eye.
Jos’s friends were all from the three presidencies, and his new house was in the comfortable Anglo-Indian district of which Moira Place is the centre.
Their places, and many others, such as posts in the judiciary, in the finances, in bailiwicks, in the Présidial, in the Election,[75] in the salt-department, in the customs, in the Mint, in the department of forests and streams, in presidencies, in councils, as procureurs du roi in various civil, administrative and criminal courts, holding places in the treasury, auditors and collectors of the various branches of the revenue - all of which offices, and many others, had been alienated for more than a century by the State in return for specified sums of ready money.