leadership

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English

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Etymology

From leader +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

Noun

leadership (countable and uncountable, plural leaderships)

  1. The capacity of someone to lead others.
    • 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Presentation”, in The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, pages 28–29:
      Personal leadership is a fundamental of successful government. I do not mean the leadership of the band of good fellows and good schemers who followed President Harding, nor the purely perfunctory party loyalty which has part of the time in part of the country sustained the present Chief Executive. I mean that leadership which, by sheer force of mind, by chain of unanswerable logic, has brought friends and foes alike to enact vitally needed measures of government reform.
    • 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!
  2. 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?
  3. The office or status of a leader.

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French

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

Noun

leadership m (plural leaderships)

  1. leadership (the characteristics of leading by the leader)
    Synonym: chefferie

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

Noun

leadership f (invariable)

  1. leadership
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