leadership

English

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leadership

Wikipedia

Etymology

From leader +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlidɚʃɪp/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈliːdəʃɪp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: lead‧er‧ship

• Audio (US):

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Noun

leadership (countable and uncountable, plural leaderships)

1. The capacity of someone to lead others.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

     Shepard: You have a plan?
     Ambassador Udina: The galaxy needs leadership. Real leadership. When a crisis hits, we can't be paralyzed by debate like the old Council.
     Ambassador Udina: The new Council must rule with a single voice. It must be assembled from one species alone -- humanity!

2. A group of leaders.
   • 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times‎:

     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?

3. The office or status of a leader.

Derived terms

• attitude reflects leadership
• deckplate leadership
• e-leadership
• leadership spill

 

Translations

capacity to lead

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: قِيَادَة f (qiyāda) Armenian: ղեկավարություն (hy) (ġekavarutʻyun) Azerbaijani: rəhbərlik, liderlik Belarusian: лі́дарства n (lídarstva) Bulgarian: ли́дерство n (líderstvo) Catalan: lideratge (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 領導能力／领导能力 (zh) (lǐngdǎo nénglì) Czech: vůdcovství n Danish: førerskab n Dutch: voorzitterschap (nl) n, leiderschap (nl) n Esperanto: kondukemeco Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: johtajuus (fi) French: autorité (fr) f, charisme (fr) f, leadership (fr) m Georgian: წინამძღვრობა (c̣inamʒɣvroba), ლიდერობა (lideroba), ხელმძღვანელობა (xelmʒɣvaneloba), მეთაურობა (metauroba) German: Führung (de) f, Leitung (de) f Hungarian: vezetői képesség (hu) Indonesian: kepemimpinan (id) Italian: leadership (it) f, carisma (it) f, autorità (it) f Japanese: リーダーシップ (ja) (rīdāshippu), 指導力 (しどうりょく, shidōryoku) Kazakh: қолбасылық (qolbasylyq), қолбасшылық (qolbasşylyq), лидерлік (liderlık) Korean: 지도력(指導力) (ko) (jidoryeok), 리더십 (rideosip) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: سەرکردەیی (serkirdeyî) Kyrgyz: лидерлик (liderlik), лидерчилик (lidercilik), башчылык (ky) (başcılık), баштоочулук (baştooculuk) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: водство n (vodstvo) Malay: kepimpinan (ms) Maori: hautūtanga Mongolian: Cyrillic: манлайлал (mn) (manlajlal) Norwegian: Bokmål: ledelse m Old English: lādtēowdōm m Persian: رهبری (fa) (rahbari), سروری (sarvari), ریاست (fa) (riyâsat) Polish: przywództwo (pl) n Portuguese: liderança (pt) f Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: ли́дерство (ru) n (líderstvo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: во̀дство n Roman: vòdstvo (sh) n Slovak: vodcovstvo n Slovene: vodstvo n Spanish: liderazgo (es) Swahili: uongozi (sw) Swedish: ledarskap (sv) n Tajik: роҳбарӣ (tg) (rohbari), сарварӣ (sarvari), раёсат (tg) (rayosat) Telugu: నాయకత్వం (nāyakatvaṁ) Thai: ความเป็นผู้นำ (kwaam-bpen-pûu-nam) Turkish: liderlik (tr) Ukrainian: лі́дерство (líderstvo) Uyghur: رەھبەرلىك (rehberlik) Uzbek: liderlik (uz), rahbarlik (uz) Vietnamese: khả năng lãnh đạo Welsh: arweiniad m

group of leaders

Belarusian: кіраўні́цтва n (kiraŭníctva) Bulgarian: ръково́дство (bg) n (rǎkovódstvo) Catalan: direcció (ca) f, (military) comandament (ca) m French: please add this translation if you can Italian: direzione (it) f Macedonian: раководство n (rakovodstvo) Malayalam: നേതൃത്വം (ml) (nētr̥tvaṁ) Polish: kierownictwo (pl) n Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: руково́дство (ru) n (rukovódstvo) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: керівни́цтво (uk) n (kerivnýctvo)

office of leader

Basque: buruzagitza, buzagitza Catalan: direcció (ca) ; prefectura (only if government office) Dutch: voorzitterschap (nl) n Finnish: johto (fi) French: please add this translation if you can Galician: xefatura f Georgian: ხელმძღვანელობა (xelmʒɣvaneloba) Hebrew: רָאשׁוּת f Italian: please add this translation if you can Latin: ductus (la) m Macedonian: раководство n (rakovodstvo) Polish: przywództwo (pl) n Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: руково́дство (ru) n (rukovódstvo) Spanish: jefatura (es) f Ukrainian: керівни́цтво (uk) (kerivnýctvo)

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Esperanto: (please verify) gvidado, (please verify) ĉefeco Estonian: (please verify) juhtimine, (please verify) eestvedamine German: (please verify) Führung (de) f, (please verify) Leitung (de) f, (military) (please verify) Kommando (de) n Spanish: (please verify) liderazgo (es) m, (please verify) caudillaje m

Anagrams

• dealership, perhalides, rape shield

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

leadership

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Alternative forms

• leadeurship

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.dœʁ.ʃip/

• Audio:

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Noun

leadership m (plural leaderships)

1. leadership (the characteristics of leading by the leader)

   Synonym: chefferie

Further reading

• “leadership”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.der.ʃip/
• Rhymes: -iderʃip

Noun

leadership f (invariable)

1. leadership