Presidency vs Prepresidential - What's the difference?
presidency | prepresidential |
The office or role of president.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=The Clintons, who once seemed banished to the wilds of Westchester County, are once again the most powerful family in Democratic politics, with talk of another Clinton presidency already rife in Washington.}}
The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the president.
The time during which one is president; a president's term of office.
Of or pertaining to the period before a person's ascent to the presidency of a country
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, passage=President Nixon made a gift of prepresidential papers to the government just in time for a substantial deduction on his income tax return for 1968.}}
As a noun presidency
is the office or role of president.As an adjective prepresidential is
of or pertaining to the period before a person's ascent to the presidency of a country.presidency
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(presidencies)- After many years as a party leader, she finally ascended to the presidency .
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- Because of the president's lame duck status, the presidency was often hampered by congressional actions.
- In France, a presidency lasts for five years.
- Ernest was a historian specializing in the presidency of Herbert Hoover.
prepresidential
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*pre-presidentialAdjective
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