Usually means: Overseeing or leading a meeting/event.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. presiding: Merriam-Webster
  2. presiding: Collins English Dictionary
  3. presiding: Vocabulary.com
  4. Presiding, presiding: Wordnik
  5. presiding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. presiding: Wiktionary
  7. presiding: Dictionary.com
  8. presiding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Presiding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. presiding: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Presiding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. presiding: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Presiding: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. presiding: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Presiding: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  3. presiding: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. presiding: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (presiding)

▸ adjective:  (law) Having authority over; vested with the authority to preside over.

Similar:
chair, president, in charge, hylarchical, reigning, regent, in chief, constitutive, ordained, vicegeral, more...

Opposite:
subordinate, underling, assistant, deputy

Phrases:
presiding officer, presiding over, presiding judge, presiding at, presiding officers, more...

Adjectives:
honorable, official, former, chief, senior, general, old, latter, present, young, high

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Similar:
chair, president, in charge, hylarchical, reigning, regent, in chief, constitutive, ordained, vicegeral, more...

Opposite:
subordinate, underling, assistant, deputy

Phrases:
presiding officer, presiding over, presiding judge, presiding at, presiding officers, presiding elder, presiding bishop, Presiding Officer of the United States Senate, more...

Adjectives:
honorable, official, former, chief, senior, general, old, latter, present, young, high

Colors:
    royal blue,     gold,     silver,     burgundy,     emerald, more...



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