NOUN
- a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session
How To Use praesidium In A Sentence
- Evaluations of policies are conducted through research and expert analysis supported by the Presidium's administrative staff.
- The presidium has decided to hold this evening's meeting elsewhere.
- The poised "presidium" of the 1980 interfactory committee — the directing summit of the workers 'confrontation with the state — was but a formal surfacing of a community of Baltic oppositionists populated by many worker activists who had labored in concert before KOR was ever formed. Solidarity's Sources
- Then the congress elected its praesidium.
- The presidium will hold a meeting to discuss the schedule and the agenda of the assembly this afternoon at 2pm.
- The praesidium has decided to hold this evening's meeting elsewhere.
- There are also many Kohl supporters in the party presidium.
- Anyhow, now the central presidium urges me to scan my computer for credit card and social security numbers, a process that takes forever and yields a bunch of false hits — ten-digit clusters that are not, in fact, social security numbers at all, but rather the accession numbers of various objects that belong to other art museums. The Cards
- The Soviet news agency Tass reported the ouster of Molotov, Malenkov, and Kaganovich from the Central Committee and from its Presidium because of antiparty activities; Shepilov was ousted on July 4. 1957, Feb. 11
- Four other colleagues from the presidium were also taken into custody.
