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vice president

vice president

352 3.4
A senior leader who is second in charge and takes over when the leader is away
  • noun
  • /ˈvaɪs ˈprɛzɪdənt/
translation icon : vicepresidente
  • As vice president, she is responsible for making key decisions when the president is unavailable.
  • serve as vice president
  • elected vice president
  • senior vice president

Zach, you are vice president of IoT at ARM.

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Examples

  • Zach, you are vice president of IoT at ARM.

    Arduino

  • You mean like Gabe Lawrence, vice president of infotainment?

    Up Close & Personal (1996)

  • And I will be a dedicated vice president.

    Election (1999)

  • Connect me to the vice president, please.

    Air Force One (1997)

  • I was a corporate vice president.

    The Insider (1999)

  • At one point, the subject of inequality in America came up, and the vice president asked for my opinion.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Steve Begun, who currently serves as vice president for the Ford Motor Company.

  • Uh, I'm Bill Duncan, the vice president.

    Positive I.D. (1986)

  • Mr. Naylor is the vice president of the Academy ofTobacco Studies.

    Thank You for Smoking (2005)

  • He is the publisher and vice president of research at savingforcollege.com.

Synonyms

veep
vsvice president
  • Slang
6 8.4

A person who is the vice president in government or business

is the neutral and formal title used in official settings
V.P.
vsvice president
3.4

A person who helps run a company and ranks just below the president

is the full written form rather than the abbreviation

Antonyms

president
  • US
355 3.0

The senior manager of a company who runs its daily business

How Senior

CEO
678 3.5
vice president
352 3.4
director
∞ 3.0
manager
∞ 1.6
employee
∞ 1.3

Surface Forms

vice president singular
vice presidents plural

Morphology

vice + president

The meaning is directly compositional: 'vice' in this collocation functions as 'deputy/in place of' so combined with 'president' yields 'deputy president' or someone who acts for the president. This morphological pattern (vice- meaning deputy) is cross-linguistically common and follows a regular formation, so a learner who knows the constituent meanings will readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Vice president comes from an old use of vice meaning 'in place of', so it literally names someone who can stand in for the president. That is why a vice president is the person who ranks just below the president and may act as president when needed.