LEADERSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leadership mean? 

• LEADERSHIP (noun)
  The noun LEADERSHIP has 4 senses:

1. the activity of leading

2. the body of people who lead a group

3. the status of a leader

4. the ability to lead

  Familiarity information: LEADERSHIP used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEADERSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of leading

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

leadership; leading

Context example:

his leadership inspired the team

Hypernyms ("leadership" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leadership"):

helm ((figurative) a position of leadership)

lead (a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase 'take the lead'))

trend setting (the initiating or popularizing of a trend or fashion)

Derivation:

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The body of people who lead a group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

leaders; leadership

Context example:

the national leadership adopted his plan

Hypernyms ("leadership" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leadership"):

Rome (the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church)

high command; supreme headquarters (the highest leaders in an organization (e.g. the commander-in-chief and senior officers of the military))

Derivation:

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The status of a leader

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

they challenged his leadership of the union

Hypernyms ("leadership" is a kind of...):

position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)

Derivation:

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The ability to lead

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

he believed that leadership can be taught

Hypernyms ("leadership" is a kind of...):

ability; power (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leadership"):

generalship (the leadership ability of a military general)

Derivation:

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

 Context examples 

The degree typically leads to teaching, research, leadership roles in agencies, or self-employed social work practice.

(Doctor of Social Work, NCI Thesaurus)

Dave and Sol-leks did not mind the change in leadership.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Participating institutions will be selected by the Network's scientific leadership for their ability to contribute to the particular trials in the Network's research repertoire.

(Cooperative Trial in Diagnostic Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

Be in charge of; a position of leadership.

(Lead, NCI Thesaurus)

A member of the multidisciplinary Concept Evaluation Panel (CEP) organized under the leadership of the NCI Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program to evaluate Phase III clinical trial proposals.

(CEP Member, NCI Thesaurus)

An institute within the National Institutes of Health that provides leadership in the national effort to reduce alcohol-related problems.

(National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NCI Thesaurus)

Comprehensive Cancer Centers are expected to initiate and conduct early-phase, innovative clinical trials and to participate in the NCI's cooperative groups by providing leadership and recruiting patients for trials.

(NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

The National Protocol, Standard Cancer Center Information Summary for Cancer Center Support Grant Application, is a multi-institutional trial in which the Cancer Center provides leadership or is a participant.

(National Protocol Standard Cancer Center Information Summary, NCI Thesaurus)

Yet his dominant nature asserted itself, and he had first to thrash them into an acknowledgment of his superiority and leadership.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

An important leadership function of all advanced practice nurses is participation in legislative and professional activities to promote professional advancement and health related social policies.

(Advanced practice nurse, NCI Thesaurus)