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Definition of Preside
1. Verb. Act as president. "Preside over companies and corporations"
Derivative terms: President, President, President, President, President, President
Definition of Preside
1. v. i. To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate.
Definition of Preside
1. Verb. (intransitive) To act as president or chairperson. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To exercise authority or control, oversit. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive music) To be a featured solo performer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Preside
1. to occupy the position of authority [v -SIDED, -SIDING, -SIDES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preside
Literary usage of Preside
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"The Emperor naturally desired that the presidency The Popo of the Council should
be vested in ' the Bishop of Old preside at Rome;' and Eutychius the new ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"... States shall preside ; and in a case requiring tho said Chief Justice to
preside, notice shall be given to him, by the Presiding Officer of the Senate, ..."
3. The Peace Conference at The Hague: And Its Bearings on International Law and by Frederick William Holls (1900)
"The umpire shall preside over the preside. Tribunal; when the Tribunal does not
include an umpire, it shall appoint its own presiding officer. ..."
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