Vice president

A vice president is someone who helps a president conduct his or her duties. A vice president also takes over if a president is not available. In business and in government a vice president (VP) is below a president in rank. Vice is comes from Latin meaning 'in place of'.^[1] In British English a vice president in business is called a director. In some countries, a vice president is called a deputy president.^[2]

Terms and abbreviations

Deputy President (DP)
Senior Executive Vice President (SEVP)
Executive Vice President (EVP)
Senior Vice President (SVP)
First Vice President (FVP)
Vice President (VP)
Assistant Vice President or Associate Vice President (AVP)

Vice President Media

U.S. vice president Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in 2011
Azerbaijan's vice president Mehriban Aliyeva with former Latvian president Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga in 2017

Related pages

Deputy prime minister

References

↑ "vice", etymologyonlive.com
↑ Constitutional Law of 10 EU Member States: The 2004 Enlargement, eds. Constantijn A J M Kortmann; Miluše Kindlová (Deventer: Kluwer, 2006), p. xxxiv

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[1] "vice", etymologyonlive.com

[2] Constitutional Law of 10 EU Member States: The 2004 Enlargement, eds. Constantijn A J M Kortmann; Miluše Kindlová (Deventer: Kluwer, 2006), p. xxxiv

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