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PRESIDIUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does presidium mean?
• PRESIDIUM (noun)
The noun PRESIDIUM 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 session
Familiarity information: PRESIDIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("presidium" is a kind of...):
commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)
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