What does leadership mean?
Definitions for leadership
ˈli dərˌʃɪplead·er·ship
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word leadership.
Princeton's WordNet
leadership, leadingnoun
the activity of leading
"his leadership inspired the team"
leadership, leadersnoun
the body of people who lead a group
"the national leadership adopted his plan"
leadershipnoun
the status of a leader
"they challenged his leadership of the union"
leadershipnoun
the ability to lead
"he believed that leadership can be taught"
GCIDE
Leadershipnoun
The quality of character and personality giving a person the ability to gain the confidence of and lead others; as, Washington's leadership was indispensible to success of the American Revolution.
Leadershipnoun
The people who serve as leaders of a group; as, the party leadership was in disarray after the election.
Wiktionary
leadershipnoun
the capacity of someone to lead
leadershipnoun
a group of leaders
leadershipnoun
The office or status of a leader.
Webster Dictionary
Leadershipnoun
the office of a leader
Freebase
Leadership
Leadership has been described as “a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task". Other in-depth definitions of leadership have also emerged. Leadership is "organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal". The leader may or may not have any formal authority. Studies of leadership have produced theories involving traits, situational interaction, function, behavior, power, vision and values, charisma, and intelligence, among others. Somebody whom people follow: somebody who guides or directs others.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Leadership
The function of directing or controlling the actions or attitudes of an individual or group with more or less willing acquiescence of the followers.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
leadership
The state or condition of a leader.
Editors Contribution
leadership
The ability, feeling, knowing and understanding a person has to see the vision, unite a team, lead the team, cocreate, direct and manage the vision we choose, using a budget, goals, legislation, objectives, plans, processes, procedures, rules, strategy, structure, systems
Leadership recognizes that we are a team and ensures we all work together with a spirit of unity and inclusion
Submitted by MaryC on April 10, 2020
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'leadership' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2114
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'leadership' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4390
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'leadership' in Nouns Frequency: #941
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of leadership in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of leadership in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of leadership in a Sentence
I am under the impression that the leadership of UTC shares my assessment.
Pat Lynch's leadership has failed, we'd like to give police officers the representation they deserve.
The closer we get to 2016, the more the electorate pays attention, which we're now seeing with foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation and in Hillary's undisclosed emails, these are problems that raise real leadership and transparency concerns, concerns that can be addressed in caucuses and primaries, but would go ignored in a coronation process.
I think frustrations were high, and, I think that he understands that from a leadership position, that we cant lose control and that he knows that thats not something that should have happened, and its certainly not something that he intends to have happen again.
I do believe that leadership is taking this very, very seriously, i was with the Speaker in Glasgow last week, but this is something that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and I and I think most of House leadership are taking extremely seriously especially now that this is an established pattern that has escalated from the Republican party.
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Translations for leadership
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- قيادةArabic
- vůdcovstvíCzech
- Führung, LeitungGerman
- ηγεσίαGreek
- gvidadoEsperanto
- liderazgoSpanish
- رهبریPersian
- johto, johtajuusFinnish
- charisme, autorité, direction, leadershipFrench
- नेतृत्वHindi
- vezetés, vezetői képességHungarian
- direzioneItalian
- リーダーシップ, 指導力Japanese
- 지도력Korean
- سهرکردهییKurdish
- ducisLatin
- voorzitterschapDutch
- przywództwoPolish
- liderançaPortuguese
- лидерство, руководствоRussian
- vodstvoSerbo-Croatian
- ledarskapSwedish
- uongoziSwahili
- தலைமைத்துவம்Tamil
- liderlikTurkish
- قیادتUrdu
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