PRESIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preside mean? 

• PRESIDE (verb)
  The verb PRESIDE has 1 sense:

1. act as president

  Familiarity information: PRESIDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESIDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they preside    ... he / she / it presides   
Past simple: presided   
Past participle: presided   
-ing form: presiding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act as president

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

preside over companies and corporations

Hypernyms (to "preside" is one way to...):

command; control (exercise authoritative control or power over)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

President (the office of the United States head of state)

president (the chief executive of a republic)

President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

president (an executive officer of a firm or corporation)

president (the head administrative officer of a college or university)

president (the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization)

 Context examples 

Thirteen years had seen her mistress of Kellynch Hall, presiding and directing with a self-possession and decision which could never have given the idea of her being younger than she was.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

What happy combination of the planets presided over her birth, I wonder?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Miss Bates said a great deal; Mrs. Elton swelled at the idea of Miss Woodhouse's presiding; Mr. Knightley's answer was the most distinct.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Miss Crawford was silenced, and with some feelings of resentment and mortification, moved her chair considerably nearer the tea-table, and gave all her attention to Mrs. Norris, who was presiding there.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Doctor Mell (of Colonial Salem-House Grammar School, Port Middlebay) presided, and on his right sat the distinguished guest.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Challenger presided with a solemnity as if he were the Lord Chief Justice on the Bench.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A person who presides over a review committee or panel, which evaluates letters of intent (LOI) for clinical trials.

(Letter of Intent Review Chair, NCI Thesaurus)

An individual that presides over and arbitrates disputes between individuals or organizations.

(Adjudicator, NCI Thesaurus)

The presiding officer who examines abstract or generic ideas generalized from particular instances.

(Concept Review Chair, NCI Thesaurus)

Day and night she brooded over them with tireless devotion and anxiety, leaving John to the tender mercies of the help, for an Irish lady now presided over the kitchen department.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)