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PRAESIDIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does praesidium mean? 

PRAESIDIUM (noun)
  The noun PRAESIDIUM has 1 sense:

1. a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in sessionplay

  Familiarity information: PRAESIDIUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRAESIDIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

praesidium; presidium

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

commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)


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