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English
Etymology
From leader + -ship.
Pronunciation
Noun
leadership (countable and uncountable, plural leaderships)
- The capacity of someone to lead others.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:Shepard: You have a plan?
Ambassador Udina: The galaxy needs leadership. Real leadership. When a crisis hits, we can't be paralyzed by debate like the old Council.
Ambassador Udina: The new Council must rule with a single voice. It must be assembled from one species alone -- humanity!
- A group of leaders.
2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times:People who talk about an imminent possibility of war seldom pose this question: What would North Korea’s leadership get from unleashing a war that they are likely to lose in weeks, if not days?
- The office or status of a leader.
Derived terms
Translations
capacity to lead
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: قِيَادَة f (qiyāda)
- Armenian: ղեկավարություն (hy) (ġekavarutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: rəhbərlik, liderlik
- Belarusian: лі́дарства n (lídarstva)
- Bulgarian: ли́дерство n (líderstvo)
- Catalan: lideratge (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 領導能力/领导能力 (zh) (lǐngdǎo nénglì)
- Czech: vůdcovství n
- Danish: førerskab n
- Dutch: voorzitterschap (nl) n, leiderschap (nl) n
- Esperanto: kondukemeco
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: johtajuus (fi)
- French: autorité (fr) f, charisme (fr) f, leadership (fr) m
- Georgian: წინამძღვრობა (c̣inamʒɣvroba), ლიდერობა (lideroba), ხელმძღვანელობა (xelmʒɣvaneloba), მეთაურობა (metauroba)
- German: Führung (de) f, Leitung (de) f
- Hungarian: vezetői képesség (hu)
- Indonesian: kepemimpinan (id)
- Italian: leadership (it) f, carisma (it) f, autorità (it) f
- Japanese: リーダーシップ (rīdāshippu), 指導力 (しどうりょく, shidōryoku)
- Kazakh: қолбасылық (qolbasylyq), қолбасшылық (qolbasşylyq), лидерлік (liderlık)
- Korean: 지도력(指導力) (ko) (jidoryeok), 리더십 (rideosip)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: سەرکردەیی (serkirdeyî)
- Kyrgyz: лидерлик (liderlik), лидерчилик (lidercilik), башчылык (ky) (başcılık), баштоочулук (baştooculuk)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: водство n (vodstvo)
- Malay: kepimpinan (ms)
- Maori: hautūtanga
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: манлайлал (mn) (manlajlal)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ledelse m
- Old English: lādtēowdōm m
- Persian: رهبری (fa) (rahbari)
- Polish: przywództwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: liderança (pt) f
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: ли́дерство (ru) n (líderstvo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: во̀дство n
- Roman: vòdstvo (sh) n
- Slovak: vodcovstvo n
- Slovene: vodstvo n
- Spanish: liderazgo (es)
- Swahili: uongozi (sw)
- Swedish: ledarskap (sv) n
- Tajik: роҳбарӣ (tg) (rohbarī)
- Telugu: నాయకత్వం (nāyakatvaṁ)
- Thai: ความเป็นผู้นำ (kwaam-bpen-pûu-nam)
- Turkish: liderlik (tr)
- Ukrainian: лі́дерство (líderstvo)
- Uyghur: رەھبەرلىك (rehberlik)
- Uzbek: liderlik (uz), rahbarlik (uz)
- Vietnamese: khả năng lãnh đạo
- Welsh: arweiniad m
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Anagrams
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English.
Pronunciation
Noun
leadership m (plural leaderships)
- leadership (the characteristics of leading by the leader)
- Synonym: chefferie
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English.
Pronunciation
Noun
leadership f (invariable)
- leadership