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English
Etymology
From vice- + president.
Pronunciation
Noun
vice president (plural vice presidents) (abbreviation VP)
- A deputy to a president, often empowered to assume the position of president on their death or absence.
- 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
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)
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