Leadership
['liːdəʃɪp] or ['lidɚʃɪp]
Definition
(noun.) the activity of leading; 'his leadership inspired the team'.
(noun.) the ability to lead; 'he believed that leadership can be taught'.
(noun.) the body of people who lead a group; 'the national leadership adopted his plan'.
(noun.) the status of a leader; 'they challenged his leadership of the union'.
Edited by Beverly--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The office of a leader.
Typed by Ferris
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Guidance, direction, lead, conduct.
Editor: Margie
Examples
- What Wisconsin had was leadership and a people that responded, inventors, and constructive minds. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Edison always stood shoulder to shoulder with his associates, but no one ever questioned the leadership, nor was it ever in doubt where the inspiration originated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This leadership is the distinctive fact about politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To-day within the Socialist Party there is perhaps the greatest surviving example of the desire to offset natural leadership by artificial contrivance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For a time natural leadership and nominal position coincided, and the administration became in a measure a real sovereignty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Our choice, it seems to me, lies between a blind push and a deliberate leadership, between thwarting movements until they master us, and domesticating them until they are answered. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If there is one thing modern Germany is proud and jealous of, it is her leadership in electrical engineering and investigation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Within that party, therefore, a leadership is required which will ride the forces of syndicalism and use them for a constructive purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They had found an educated leadership in the dissentient priests and doctors of the Wycliffe type. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He wished to go to sea, and gave indications of leadership and enterprise. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A certain Cleon arose, ambitious to oust Pericles from his leadership. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The work requires industrial organizers, engineers, architects, educators, sanitists to achieve what leadership brings into the program of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One Maillard appeared with organizing power, and assumed a certain leadership. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By the '90's surely, the egregious folly of a Sherman Anti-Trust Law should have been evident to any man who pretended to political leadership. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- An expedition under the leadership of Pericles was unsuccessful, and Cleon seized the opportunity for a prosecution. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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