pre|sid|i|um

pre|sid|i|um
pre|sid|i|um «prih SIHD ee uhm», noun, plural -i|a«-ee uh», -ih|uhms.
1. a group of people elected by a body to serve as its executive or administrative committee: »

…a member of the presidium of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (New York Times).

2. Also, Presidium. an executive committee, usually permanent, in the government of a Communist country which acts for the legislature or makes the laws that the legislature ratifies.
╂[< Latin praesidium a presiding over < praesidēre to preside]
Pre|sid|i|um «prih SIHD ee uhm», noun, plural -i|a «-ee uh», -i|ums.
1. (formerly) a permanent executive committee of the Supreme Soviet that acted for this legislature between its two yearly sessions. Its chairman was the head of state of the Soviet Union.
2. (formerly) the chief executive and policy-making body of the Soviet Communist Party from 1952 to 1966, thereafter officially known as the Politburo.
3. = presidium (def. 2). (Cf. ↑presidium)
╂[< Russian Prezidium < Latin praesidium presidium]

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