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Vice president   /vaɪs prˈɛzədˌɛnt/   Listen
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Vice  adj.  Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.
Vice admiral.
(a)
An officer holding rank next below an admiral. By the existing laws, the rank of admiral and vice admiral in the United States Navy will cease at the death of the present incumbents.
(b)
A civil officer, in Great Britain, appointed by the lords commissioners of the admiralty for exercising admiralty jurisdiction within their respective districts.
Vice admiralty, the office of a vice admiral.
Vice-admiralty court, a court with admiralty jurisdiction, established by authority of Parliament in British possessions beyond the seas.
Vice chamberlain, an officer in court next in rank to the lord chamberlain. (Eng.)
Vice chancellor.
(a)
(Law) An officer next in rank to a chancellor.
(b)
An officer in a university, chosen to perform certain duties, as the conferring of degrees, in the absence of the chancellor.
(c)
(R. C. Ch.) The cardinal at the head of the Roman Chancery.
Vice consul, a subordinate officer, authorized to exercise consular functions in some particular part of a district controlled by a consul.
Vice king, one who acts in the place of a king; a viceroy.
Vice legate, a legate second in rank to, or acting in place of, another legate.
Vice presidency, the office of vice president.
Vice president, an officer next in rank below a president.






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"Vice president" Quotes from Famous Books



... made it necessary to transfer the seat of the government from Brussels to Antwerp, a sub-committee was appointed there, consisting of Mr. Cooreman, Minister of State; Members, Count Goblet d'Aviella, Minister of State, Vice President of the Senate; Messrs. Ryckmans, Senator; Strauss, Alderman of the City of Antwerp; Van Cutsem, Honorary President of the Law Court of Antwerp. Secretaries, Chevalier Ernst de Bunswyck, Chief Secretary of the Belgian Minister of Justice; Mr. Orts, Counselor ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

... be Governor for another term, especially if we are able to take hold of the canals in serious shape. But as Vice President, I don't see there is anything I can do. I would simply be a presiding officer, and that I should find a bore. As you know, I am a man of moderate means (although I am a little better off than the ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer

... letter of Burr to ——-, giving a history of his transactions with the Holland Land Company; his daughter married; Miss Burr to Joseph Alston; letter from Alston to Miss Burr on early marriages; contested election in New-York in 1800; Burr a candidate for the office of Vice President; a tie vote with ...
— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis

... think we're all responsible. You can look us up, if you wish. Besides myself, there is Philip Cabot, of Cabot, Joyner & Teale, whom you know, and Adam Trehearne, who's worth about a half-million in industrial shares, and Colin MacBride, who's vice president in charge of construction and maintenance for Edison-Public Power & Light, at about twenty thousand a year, and Pierre Jarrett and his fiancee, Karen Lawrence. Pierre was a Marine captain, invalided home after being wounded on Peleliu; he writes science-fiction for the pulps. ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper

... Senate passed resolutions denouncing the high-handed measures of the government, which, however, were afterwards expunged when the Senate had become Democratic. One of the most eloquent passages that Clay ever uttered was his famous apostrophe to Vice President Van Buren when presiding over the Senate, in reference to the financial distress which existed throughout the country, and which, of course, he traced to the removal of the deposits. Deputations of great respectability poured in upon the President ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XII • John Lord



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