presidium
IPA: prɪsˈɪdiʌm
noun
- A permanent executive committee, used primarily in Communist countries, with the power to act for a larger governing body when the latter is in recess.
- Such an executive committee headed by the President of the Supreme Soviet.
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Examples of "presidium" in Sentences
- The four, known as the presidium, effectively control the party
- The service identified Mr. Yang as a vice president of parliament's presidium and a member of the political bureau of the party's Central Committee.
- A "presidium" has been created of these plus the foreign, interior, defence, health and social development, agriculture and regional development ministers.
- The presidium is a presiding committee, composed of representatives of the groups and political factions represented in the assembly, in proportion to their numbers.
- A photo from Korea Central News Agency, the nation's official news service, showed Mr. Carter greeting Kim Yong-nam, president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea.
- The four, known as the presidium, effectively control the party, but their "election" came after months of infighting between Mujuru's supporters and those who want this congress's loser, Emmerson Mnangagwa, to replace Mugabe.
- The poised "presidium" of the 1980 interfactory committee — the directing summit of the workers 'confrontation with the state — was but a formal surfacing of a community of Baltic oppositionists populated by many worker activists who had labored in concert before KOR was ever formed.
- Cherries* - Dehydrofreezing, cultivar selection (S. Gobbi et al.), Physicochemical characteristics and antioxidant activity of sweet cherries (M. Plessi et al.), Use of nets against fruit cherry fly (V. Ughini et al.), The slow food "presidium" of traditional Vignola cherries (S. Zocca).
- Anyhow, now the central presidium urges me to scan my computer for credit card and social security numbers, a process that takes forever and yields a bunch of false hits — ten-digit clusters that are not, in fact, social security numbers at all, but rather the accession numbers of various objects that belong to other art museums.
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