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.

Exact synonyms: Praesidium
Generic synonyms: Commission, Committee

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Presidium

1. a Soviet executive committee [n -DIA or -DIUMS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Presidium

presidentially
presidentialness
presidents
presidentship
presidentships
presider
presiders
presides
presidia
presidial
presidiary
presiding
presiding officer
presidio
presidios
presidium (current term)
presidiums
presift
presifted
presifting
presifts
presignal
presignaled
presignaling
presignalled
presignalling
presignals
presignature
presignatures
presignification

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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