vice-presidency

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyk-der. Latin viceder. English vice- English presidency English vice-presidency From vice- + presidency.

1. The office or role of vice-president.

   “Richardson stressed that the war which had erupted in the Middle East the previous day made it doubly imperative to move me out of the vice-presidency.”

2. The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the vice-president.
3. The time during which one is vice-president; a vice-president's term of office.