Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A president, especially of a college or university.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
prex .
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- noun slang a college or university
president
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the head administrative officer of a college or university
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Cinematographer Daryn Okada, former three-term prexy of the ASC, said: "I think that the company, from the top down now, is being very responsive to filmmakers.
Variety.com 2010
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Cinematographer Daryn Okada, former three-term prexy of the ASC, said: "I think that the company, from the top down now, is being very responsive to filmmakers.
Variety.com 2010
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The press conference, heavily attended by employees who were ordered to attend by their employers, was teed up by Century City Chamber of Commerce prexy Susan Bursk.
John Mirisch: Bait-Switch-Fix: The Westside Subway's Three Act Play John Mirisch 2011
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“We (started to) prepared the ‘Avatar’ 4D ride last summer,” says Tom Oh, prexy of 20th Century Fox Korea.
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The press conference, heavily attended by employees who were ordered to attend by their employers, was teed up by Century City Chamber of Commerce prexy Susan Bursk.
John Mirisch: Bait-Switch-Fix: The Westside Subway's Three Act Play John Mirisch 2011
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[HBO prexy] Sue Naegle has taken over and I want to show it to her and see how she responds to it.
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Guess I'd feel that he should be a prexy candidate supported by millions of Americans.
Poll: Rudy Dropping In Multiple Voter Groups As Religion Shakes Up GOP Primary 2009
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Longtime Variety editor named vice prexy as scribblers ask, Was he ankled as replacement tapped for topline gig?
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"We want people to come to this who've never heard of 'Battlestar Galactica,' " explains Sci Fi prexy Dave Howe, whose network has ordered 20 hours of the new series.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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AMC prexy Charlie Collier went right to the question on every reporters 'mind at the start of the cabler's Television Critics Assn. panel on Thursday ... var news_amount = 17;
qms commented on the word prexy
Addicted to money and sex he
Induces in some apoplexy.
Oh, what's gone amiss
That one such as this
Today is anointed our prexy?
January 20, 2017