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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
presidium
noun
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▪ A presidium led by a chairman replaced the central committee politburo and secretariat.
▪ A 24-member political executive committee was elected to replace the party presidium.
▪ As with the guberniia committees, the small Pomgol presidium conducted nearly all the business, and in considerable secrecy.
▪ In May 1990 it adopted statutes and elected a five-member presidium and executive body consisting of 10 people.
▪ It elects a 15-member presidium, which in turn elects a Chairman who serves as State President for a five-year term.
▪ The presidium would no longer have ex-officio members.
▪ The response of the Moscow city soviet presidium to Pugo's decree raised the prospect of rival police forces in the capital.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Presidium

permanent administrative committee of the U.S.S.R., 1924, from Russian prezidium, from Latin praesidium "a presiding over, defense," from praesidere (see preside).

Wiktionary
presidium

n. 1 A permanent executive committee, used primarily in Communist countries, with the power to act for a larger governing body when the latter is in recess. (1920) 2 Such an executive committee headed by the President of the Supreme Soviet.

WordNet
presidium

n. a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session [syn: praesidium]

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Presidium

A presidium or praesidium (Russian prezidium, from Latin praesidēre "to superintend", "preside" [related to "president"]; English plural presidiums or pr(a)esidia) is the executive or permanent (often "standing") committee or collective presidency of various legislative bodies and other organizations.

Usage examples of "presidium".

A member of the Bundestag in West Germany, a deputy in the Nationalrat in Austria, the vice-chairman of the Presidium of the Soviet Union.

Those notebooks were received by the Presidium of the Academy from the Krasnodar Local Lore Museum about six weeks ago.

The newest hero of the Soviet, a member of the inner economic council of the Presidium.

And there was Tempe in the post of second pilot, the logician Rotmont, and two men selected out of a dozen exobiologists and other experts from the presidium of SETI on Earth: Kirsting and El Salam.

All the items dealt with Canton, happenings in and around that vital capital city of Kwantung Province: troop movements, promotions, appointments to the local presidiums and Communist Party, floods, food shortages, the military, numbers and types of East German and Czechoslovak goods available in the stores.

If the Presidium ratifies, we'll be pledged by treaty to go to his aid in that case.