- Leadership - Office of US leader - The function or condition of one who presides;
superintendence; control and care. - The office of president; as, Washington was elected to
the presidency. - The term during which a president holds his office; as,
during the presidency of Madison. - One of the three great divisions of British India, the
Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of
which its governor was president.