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Definition of Presidium
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Presidium
1. Noun. A permanent executive committee used primarily in Communist countries of which has the power to act for a larger governing body. ¹
2. Noun. Such an executive committee headed by the President of the Supreme Soviet. ¹
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Definition of Presidium
1. a Soviet executive committee [n -DIA or -DIUMS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presidium
Literary usage of Presidium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"In shady places by the streams of the presidium ; at the river Tangue, in nearly
ripe fr. Dec. 1856. No. 4777- A climbing shrub. At the river Tangue ; fr. ..."
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