presidency

1. 1.

   the tenure of a president

   “things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration”

   Synonymspresidential termadministration

   Broadertenure
2. 2.

   the office and function of president

   “Andrew Jackson expanded the power of the presidency beyond what was customary before his time”

   Synonymspresidentship

   Broaderposition

   NarrowerPresident of the United States

Other forms of presidency

plural

presidencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about presidency

What does presidency mean?

presidency means "the tenure of a president". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in presidency?

presidency has 4 syllables: pres-i-den-cy. The stress falls on "pres". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɛzədənsi/.

What is another word for presidency?

Close synonyms include presidential term, administration, presidentship. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is presidency a common word?

presidency is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.