Definition of presidium in English:
presidium
(also praesidium)
nounprɪˈzɪdɪəmprɪˈsɪdɪəmprəˈsɪdiəm
1A standing executive committee in a communist country.
(共产主义国家的)常务委员会
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1933 and 1935, for example, the presidium called for the ‘more bold and decisive promotion of women into leadership positions.’
- Political weight has been involved in the antigovernment protests, with some opposition leaders calling for an establishment of a presidium to replace the current government whom they claim had lost public confidence.
- She was so distrustful that she was only prepared to report verbally on the program's content to the party presidium just one week before the presentation of the finished document.
- Often they could not see the speaker or presidium even by craning their necks.
- The presidium will hold a meeting to discuss the schedule and the agenda of the assembly this afternoon at 2pm.
- She was in Brisbane with other presidium members, some of whom attended the UN General Assembly the following month.
- The detention and trial of some presidium leaders, and the rapprochement with other members of the elite also reflects some of the proposals.
- There are also many Kohl supporters in the party presidium.
- Four other colleagues from the presidium were also taken into custody.
- Supported by other officers, the President and Vice-Presidents form a Presidium or Bureau which organizes the Committee's business.
- 1.1 (in the former Soviet Union) the committee which functioned as the legislative authority when the Supreme Soviet was not sitting.
(苏联)最高苏维埃主席团
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- Also, the USSR Council of People's Commissars had the right to suspend all decisions and orders of the Republic's Council of Commissars, and the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet could annul them.
Origin
1920s: from Russian prezidium, from Latin praesidium 'protection, garrison' (see preside).