presidency
英 ['prezɪd(ə)nsɪ]
美 ['prɛzɪdənsi]
- n. 社長(または会長、学長、総長など)の役職(任期); 管轄権; 支配権.
英語の語源
- presidency (n.)
- 1590s, "office of a president," from Medieval Latin praesidentia "office of a president" (mid-13c.), from Latin praesidentem (nominative praesidens) "president, governor" (see president). Earlier in same sense was presidentship (1520s). Meaning "a president's term in office" is from 1610s.
例文
- 1. They have been calling the Presidency decision a backroom deal.
- 彼らは大統領人選問題を裏取引だと呼んでいる。
- 2.The presidency is beginning to appear a political irrelevance.
- 大統領職は政治的な置物に転落しているようだ。
- 3.Even the presidency was handed to him on a plate.
- 彼は大統領の座にも手を出している。
- 4.The European Union 's rotating presidency passed from Sweden to Belgium.
- EU議長国はスウェーデンからベルギーに置き換えられた。/
- 5.He was already preparing his run for the presidency .
- 彼はすでに大統領選への準備を始めている。/
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