A vice president is the officer who is second to the president. Serve as vice president.
The job has almost no duties and one enormous possibility. In business a vice president can be quite junior, which confuses everybody outside America.
1nounvice presidentThe officer who is second to the president.
“The vice president chaired a committee and waited.”
vice president is an officer.
Proto-Indo-European
*dwóh₁
Latin
vitium — fault or blemish
Old French
vice
Middle English
vice
English
vice
English, today
vice president
From vice- + president. vice comes from Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþēaw.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA