president : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a former president
  

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• noun the branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws
  executive branch.
  

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• noun a vice president holding executive power
  

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• the highest in rank of the judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland.

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• noun 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
  Lincoln; President Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln.
  

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• noun 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)
  John Quincy Adams; Adams; President Adams.
  
• noun 2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)
  John Adams; Adams; President Adams.
  

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• noun 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875)
  President Andrew Johnson; Andrew Johnson; Johnson.
  

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• noun elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886)
  Chester Alan Arthur; Arthur; Chester A. Arthur.
  

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• noun 23rd President of the United States (1833-1901)
  Benjamin Harrison; Harrison; President Benjamin Harrison.
  

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• noun 15th President of the United States (1791-1868)
  Buchanan; James Buchanan.
  

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• noun 43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)
  Dubya; Dubyuh; Bush; President Bush; George Walker Bush; George W. Bush; George Bush.
  
• noun vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)
  Bush; George H.W. Bush; George Herbert Walker Bush; George Bush.
  

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• noun 39th President of the United States (1924-)
  Jimmy Carter; James Earl Carter; Carter; James Earl Carter Jr..
  

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• noun 22nd and 24th President of the United States (1837-1908)
  Stephen Grover Cleveland; Grover Cleveland; Cleveland.
  

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• noun 42nd President of the United States (1946-)
  Clinton; Bill Clinton; William Jefferson Clinton.
  

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• noun elected vice president and succeeded as 30th President of the United States when Harding died in 1923 (1872-1933)
  Coolidge; Calvin Coolidge.
  

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• noun United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961)
  Dwight David Eisenhower; Dwight Eisenhower; Ike; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Eisenhower.
  

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• noun elected vice president and became the 13th President of the United States when Zachary Taylor died in office (1800-1874)
  Millard Fillmore; Fillmore.
  

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• noun 38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-)
  Gerald Rudolph Ford; Gerald Ford; Gerald R. Ford; Ford.
  

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• noun 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
  F. D. Roosevelt; Roosevelt; FDR; President Franklin Roosevelt; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Franklin Roosevelt.
  

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• noun 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881)
  James Abraham Garfield; Garfield; James A. Garfield; James Garfield.
  

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• noun 43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)
  Dubya; Dubyuh; Bush; President Bush; George Walker Bush; George W. Bush; George Bush.
  

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• noun 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)
  Ulysses Simpson Grant; Ulysses S. Grant; Grant; Ulysses Grant; Hiram Ulysses Grant.
  

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• noun 29th President of the United States; two of his appointees were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal (1865-1823)
  Warren Gamaliel Harding; Warren Harding; Harding.
  

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• noun 23rd President of the United States (1833-1901)
  Benjamin Harrison; Harrison; President Benjamin Harrison.
  
• noun 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841)
  President Harrison; Harrison; William Henry Harrison.
  

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• noun 19th President of the United States; his administration removed federal troops from the South and so ended the Reconstruction Period (1822-1893)
  Rutherford B. Hayes; Rutherford Birchard Hayes; Hayes.
  

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• noun 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)
  Herbert Hoover; Hoover; Herbert Clark Hoover.
  

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• noun 3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826)
  Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson.
  

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• noun 2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)
  John Adams; Adams; President Adams.
  

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• noun 35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)
  Jack Kennedy; JFK; Kennedy; President John F. Kennedy; John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
  

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• noun 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)
  John Quincy Adams; Adams; President Adams.
  

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• noun 36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973)
  Johnson; Lyndon Johnson; Lyndon Baines Johnson; President Johnson; LBJ.
  
• noun 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875)
  President Andrew Johnson; Andrew Johnson; Johnson.
  

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• noun 35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)
  Jack Kennedy; JFK; Kennedy; President John F. Kennedy; John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
  

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• noun 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
  Lincoln; President Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln.
  

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• noun 36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973)
  Johnson; Lyndon Johnson; Lyndon Baines Johnson; President Johnson; LBJ.
  

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• noun 4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776; helped frame the Bill of Rights (1751-1836)
  James Madison; Madison.
  

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• noun 25th President of the United States; was assassinated by an anarchist (1843-1901)
  McKinley; William McKinley.
  

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• noun 5th President of the United States; author of the Monroe Doctrine (1758-1831)
  Monroe; James Monroe.
  

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• noun vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994)
  Richard M. Nixon; Richard Nixon; Richard Milhous Nixon; Nixon.
  

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• noun the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government
  President; President of the United States; Chief Executive.
  
  • the President likes to jog every morning
• noun the office of the United States head of state
  President; Chief Executive.
  
  • a President is elected every four years

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• noun 14th President of the United States (1804-1869)
  Pierce; Franklin Pierce.
  

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• noun 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)
  James Polk; James K. Polk; Polk; James Knox Polk.
  

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• noun 40th President of the United States (1911-2004)
  Ronald Wilson Reagan; Reagan; Ronald Reagan.
  

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• noun 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
  F. D. Roosevelt; Roosevelt; FDR; President Franklin Roosevelt; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Franklin Roosevelt.
  
• noun 26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration
  Theodore Roosevelt; President Roosevelt; Roosevelt.
  
  • Theodore Roosevelt said `Speak softly but carry a big stick'" (1858-1919)

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• noun 27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930)
  Taft; William Howard Taft.
  

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• noun 12th President of the United States; died in office (1784-1850)
  Taylor; Zachary Taylor.
  

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• noun 26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration
  Theodore Roosevelt; President Roosevelt; Roosevelt.
  
  • Theodore Roosevelt said `Speak softly but carry a big stick'" (1858-1919)

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• noun elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan (1884-1972)
  Harry Truman; Truman; Harry S Truman.
  

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• noun elected vice president and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died (1790-1862)
  John Tyler; Tyler.
  

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• noun 8th President of the United States (1782-1862)
  Martin Van Buren; Van Buren.
  

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• noun 1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)
  Washington; George Washington.
  

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• noun 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841)
  President Harrison; Harrison; William Henry Harrison.
  

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• noun 28th President of the United States; led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations (1856-1924)
  Wilson; Thomas Woodrow Wilson; Woodrow Wilson.
  

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• noun the third Monday in February; commemorates both presidents Lincoln and Washington
  

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• noun the ranking vice president in a firm that has more than one
  

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• noun the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government
  President; President of the United States; Chief Executive.
  
  • the President likes to jog every morning

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• noun an executive officer ranking immediately below a president; may serve in the president's place under certain circumstances
  V.P..
  

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• cf. F. vice-président, an officer next in rank below a president.

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• noun the vice president of the United States who presides over the United States Senate
  

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