{
    "term": "presidency",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the job of being president of a country or an organization; the period of time somebody holds this job",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the current holder of the EU presidency"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She hopes to be the first woman elected to the presidency of the United States."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was a White House official during the Biden presidency."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She held the presidency of the association for three years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He became a candidate for the presidency."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That year he resigned his presidency of the Academy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Three years into his presidency, he is more popular than ever."
                },
                {
                    "text": "under the presidency of Barack Obama"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["executive", "vice", "rotating"],
                "verb + presidency": ["be nominated for", "run for", "stand for"],
                "preposition": [
                    "into somebody’s presidency",
                    "under somebody’s presidency"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈprezɪdənsi/",
                "audio": "pr/presidency/presidency__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈprezɪdənsi/",
                "audio": "pr/presidency/presidency__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin praesidentia, from praesidere ‘sit before’, from prae ‘before’ + sedere ‘sit’."
}