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Leadership

//ˈlidɚʃɪp// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The capacity of someone to lead others. countable, uncountable

    "Personal leadership is a fundamental of successful government. I do not mean the leadership of the band of good fellows and good schemers who followed President Harding, nor the purely perfunctory party loyalty which has part of the time in part of the country sustained the present Chief Executive. I mean that leadership which, by sheer force of mind, by chain of unanswerable logic, has brought friends and foes alike to enact vitally needed measures of government reform."

  2. 2
    the activity of leading wordnet
  3. 3
    A group of leaders. countable, uncountable

    "People who talk about an imminent possibility of war seldom pose this question: What would North Korea’s leadership get from unleashing a war that they are likely to lose in weeks, if not days?"

  4. 4
    the ability to lead wordnet
  5. 5
    The office or status of a leader. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the body of people who lead a group wordnet
  2. 7
    the status of a leader wordnet

Etymology

From leader + -ship.

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