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A vice president is an officer in government or business who is next in rank below a president. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning in place of. In some countries, the vice president is called the deputy president. In American slang, the American Vice President is sometimes referred to as the V. P. or the veep, while the spouse of a vice president may be known as the Second Lady.

Vice presidents in government

In politics, a vice president is a politician whose primary job is to replace the president on the event of his or her death or resignation. Vice presidents are either elected jointly with the president as his or her running mate, elected separately, or appointed independently after the president's election.

Governments with vice presidents generally have only one person holding this role and generally if the president is not present, dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to fulfill his job, the vice president will serve as a president. In many presidential systems, the vice president does not wield much day to day political power, but is still considered an important member of the cabinet. Many Vice Presidents in the Americas hold the symbolic position of President of the Senate. The vice president sometimes assumes some of the ceremonial duties of president, such as attending functions and events that the actual president may be too busy to attend; the Vice President of the United States, for example often attends funerals of world leaders on behalf of the president. In this capacity the vice president may thus assume the role of a de facto symbolic head of state, a position which is lacking in a system of government where the powers of head of state and government are fused.

The vice-president's position can mean different things in different democracies. In parliamentary systems, most states do not have a vice president but instead name another office-holder, often the chairperson or president of the upper house of parliament or even the prime minister to act as effective vice president. In the Republic of Ireland, a collective vice presidency exists called the Presidential Commission, made up of chairmen of both houses of the Oireachtas (parliament), along with the Irish Chief Justice. In Germany, the de facto vice president is the President of the Bundesrat (upper house), in Poland it is Marshal of the Sejm (lower house) and in France it is the speaker of the Senate. In Russia, the Prime Minister serves as the de facto vice president, although he has much more power than the Vice President of the United States.

Vice presidents in business

In business, vice-president refers to a rank in senior management. A trade-union may also elect a vice-president to serve its members. Most companies that use this title generally have large numbers of people with the title of vice president with different types of vice president (e.g. vice president for finance). A vice president in business usually reports directly to the president or CEO of the company. When there are several vice presidents in a company they are sometimes ranked by naming the highest ranking Executive VP, the second highest ranking Senior VP, and the remainder of the management team just VP. There are usually several SVPs in one company, when that title is used. There can also be more than one EVP.

In large brokerage firms, there are usually several VPs in each local branch office, the title being more ceremonial than actually denoting a managerial position within the company.

A corporate vice-president is rarely "second in line" to succeed the corporate president following death or resignation. Such decisions are usually left up to the board of directors.

vice president is an officer in government or business who is next in rank below a president. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning in place of. In some countries, the vice president is called the deputy president.
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VP can mean:

Holden VP Commodore, an automobile introduced by Holden in 1991.
U.S. Navy Patrol Squadron
Valkyrie Profile
Variegate porphyria
Vasopressin
Verb phrase
Via Prudensiae, a role-playing game

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Veep can refer to:

The village of St Veep in Cornwall.
Saint Veep, after whom the village is named.
A colloquialism for vice president.

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corporate titles or business titles on company officials as a means of identifying their function in the organization. In addition, many non-profit organizations, educational institutions, partnerships, and sole proprietorships also assign titles of the same nature.
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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.^[1]
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Business law
Business organizations
Basic forms:
Sole proprietorship
Corporation
Partnership
(General · Limited · LLP)
Cooperative
USA:
Business trust · LLC · LLLP
Delaware corporation
Nevada corporation
UK/Commonwealth:
Limited company
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President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, trade unions, universities, and countries. Etymologically, a "president" is one who presides , who sits in leadership (from Latin prae- "before" + sedere "to sit"; giving the term
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Official status
Official language of: Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech
Regulated by: Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Roman Catholic Church
Language codes
ISO 639-1: la
ISO 639-2: lat
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VICE (all caps), standing for VersatIle Commodore Emulator, is an emulator for Commodore's 8-bit computers, running on Amiga, Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, Mac OS X, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, and BeOS host machines.
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American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), also known as United States English or U.S. English, is a set of dialects of the English language used mostly in the United States.
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Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language. Slang is often highly regional, specific to a particular territory.
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A Second Lady is a title sometimes used in reference to the wife of a vice president, styled relative to the title of First Lady, the wife of a president. Although no country grants any legal power to any second lady, often, their duties include the following:

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A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics.
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A running mate is a person running for a subordinate position on a joint ticket during an election.

The term is usually used in reference to a prospective vice president of the United States, who the prospective president appoints sometime during the course of the election
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A presidential system, also called a congressional system, is a system of government where an executive branch exists and presides (hence the term) separately from the legislature, to which it is not accountable and which cannot in normal circumstances dismiss it.
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cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers, an Executive Council or an Executive Committee.
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Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World consisting of the continents of North America^[1] and South America with their associated islands and regions. The Americas cover 8.3% of the Earth's total surface area (28.
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worldwide view.

The President of the Senate is the title often given to the presiding officer, or chairman, of a senate.

In many countries, the Senate Presidency is a largely symbolic position.
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De facto is a Latin expression that means "in fact" or "in practice" but not spelled out by law. It is commonly used in contrast to de jure (which means "by law") when referring to matters of law, governance, or technique (such as standards), that are found in the
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For the comedy film of the same name, see .

Head of state or Chief of state is the generic term for the individual or collective office that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchic or republican nation-state, federation,
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red and orange—the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state.
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A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. The position is usually held by, but need not always be held by, a politician.
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Anthem
Amhrán na bhFiann
The Soldier's Song

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Republic of Ireland

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Ireland

Constitution
Referendum

Oireachtas

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Oireachtas (IPA: [ɛrʲaxt̪ˠasˠ]) is the "national parliament"^[1] or legislature of the Republic of Ireland, sometimes referred to as Oireachtas Éireann.
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Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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In Germany, the President of the Bundesrat (German: Bundesratspräsident) is the body's chairperson or speaker. The presidency of the Bundesrat rotates among the minister-presidents of each of the federal Länder (states) on an annual basis.
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