vice president

See also: vicepresident, vice-president, Vice President, Vice-President, and vice-président

English

Alternative forms

• vice-president

Etymology

From vice- +‎ president.

Noun

vice president (plural vice presidents) (abbreviation VP)

1. A deputy to a president, often empowered to assume the position of president on their death or absence.
2. An executive in a business in charge of a department or branch.

Synonyms

• (abbreviation): VP
• (senior administrator at a college or university): provost (US)
• (informal, jocular): veep
• (politics): deputy president (Kenya, South Africa)

Derived terms

• junior vice president
• senior vice president
• veep
• vice presidency
• vice presidential, vice-presidential
• VP

 

Translations

deputy to a president

• Albanian: nënkryetar (sq) m, nënpresident (sq) m, zëvendëspresident m
• Amharic: ምክትል ፕሬዝዳንት (məktəl pərezdant)
• Arabic: نَائِب رَئِيس m (nāʔib raʔīs), نَائِبَةُ رَئِيسَة f (nāʔibatu raʔīsa)
• Armenian: փոխնախագահ (hy) (pʻoxnaxagah)
• Azerbaijani: vitse-prezident
• Belarusian: віцэ-прэзідэ́нт m (vice-prezidént), віцэ-прэзідэ́нтка f (vice-prezidéntka)
• Bulgarian: ви́цепрезиде́нт m (víceprezidént), ви́цепрезиде́нтка f (víceprezidéntka)
• Catalan: vicepresident (ca) m, vicepresidenta (ca) f
• Cebuano: bise presidente
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 副總統／副总统 (fu³ zung² tung²) (of a country), 副主席 (fu³ zyu² zik⁶) (PRC position or organizations)

  Hokkien: 副總統／副总统 (hù-chóng-thóng) (of a country), 副主席 (PRC position or organizations)

  Mandarin: 副總統／副总统 (zh) (fùzǒngtǒng) (of a country), 副主席 (zh) (fùzhǔxí) (PRC position or organizations)

• Czech: viceprezident (cs) m, viceprezidentka f
• Danish: vicepresident c
• Dutch: vicepresident (nl) m, vicevoorzitter (nl) m
• Esperanto: vicprezidanto
• Estonian: asepresident
• Faroese: varaforseti m
• Finnish: varapresidentti (fi)
• French: vice-président (fr) m, vice-présidente (fr) f
• Galician: vicepresidente m, vicepresidenta f
• Georgian: ვიცე-პრეზიდენტი (vice-ṗrezidenṭi)
• German: Vizepräsident (de) m, Vizepräsidentin (de) f
• Greek: αντιπρόεδρος (el) m or f (antipróedros)
• Hebrew: סגן נשיא m (sgan nasí)
• Hindi: उपराष्ट्रपति m (uprāṣṭrapti)
• Hungarian: alelnök (hu)
• Icelandic: varaforseti m
• Ido: viceprezidanto (io)
• Indonesian: wakil presiden
• Italian: vicepresidente (it) m, vicepresidentessa f
• Japanese: 副大統領 (ja) (ふくだいとうりょう, fukudaitōryō), ヴァイスプレジデント (vaisupurejidento)
• Kazakh: вице-президент (vise-prezident)
• Khmer: អនុប្រធានាធិបតី (ʼaʼnuprɑthiəniəthɨppaʼdəy)
• Korean: 부통령(副統領) (butongnyeong), 부대통령(副大統領) (budaetongnyeong) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: вице-президент (vitse-prezident)
• Lao: ຮອງປະທານ (hǭng pa thān), ຮອງປະທານາທິບໍດີ (hǭng pa thā nā thi bǭ dī)
• Latin: praeses vicarius
• Latvian: viceprezidents m, viceprezidente f
• Lithuanian: viceprezidentas m, viceprezidentė f
• Macedonian: потпретседател m (potpretsedatel), потпретседателка f (potpretsedatelka)
• Malay: naib presiden, timbalan presiden, naib yang dipertua (education)
• Marathi: उपराष्ट्रपती m or f (uprāṣṭraptī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: visepresident m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: مُعاوِنِ رَئیس (mo'âven-e ra'is), نایِب‌رَئیس (nâyeb-ra'is), نایِبِ رَئیس (nâyeb-e ra'is)

• Polish: wiceprezydent (pl) m, wiceprezydentka f
• Portuguese: vice-presidente (pt) m or f
• Romanian: vicepreședinte (ro) m, vicepreședintă (ro) f
• Russian: ви́це-президе́нт (ru) m (více-prezidént)
• Scottish Gaelic: iar-cheann-suidhe m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: потпре́дседнӣк m

  Roman: potprédsednīk m

• Slovak: viceprezident m, viceprezidentka f
• Slovene: podpredsednik m, podpredsednica f
• Spanish: vicepresidente (es) m, vicepresidenta (es) f
• Swahili: makamu wa rais
• Swedish: vicepresident (sv) c
• Tagalog: pangalawang pangulo, bise presidente
• Tajik: ноиб-президент (noyib-prezident), ноиби президент (noyib-i prezident)
• Thai: รองประธาน (rɔɔng-bprà-taan), อุปนายก (ùp-bpà-naa-yók), รองประธานาธิบดี (rɔɔng-bprà-taa-naa-típ-bɔɔ-dii)
• Turkish: başkan yardımcısı (tr)
• Turkmen: wise-prezident
• Ukrainian: віце-президе́нт m (vice-prezydént), віце-президе́нтка f (vice-prezydéntka)
• Urdu: نائِب صَدْر m (nāib sadr)
• Uzbek: vitse-prezident (uz)
• Vietnamese: phó chủ tịch, phó tổng thống
• Welsh: is-lywydd
• Yiddish: וויצע פּרעזידענט (vitse prezident)