Associations to the word «Presidium»

Wiktionary

PRESIDIUM, noun. A permanent executive committee, used primarily in Communist countries, with the power to act for a larger governing body when the latter is in recess. [1920]
PRESIDIUM, noun. Such an executive committee headed by the President of the Supreme Soviet.

Dictionary definition

PRESIDIUM, 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.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke