Test Your Vocabulary

Take Our 10-Question Quiz

Name That Thing

Take our visual vocab quiz

Test Your Knowledge »

True or False?

A quick quiz about stuff worth knowing

Take It Now »

Join Us on FB & Twitter

Get the Word of the Day and More

Facebook | Twitter
  1. Word Games
  2. Word of the Day
  3. New Words & Slang
  4. Video
 

presidential government


presidential government

noun

Definition of PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT

: a system of government in which the president is constitutionally independent of the legislature

First Known Use of PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT

1857

Other Government and Politics Terms

agent provocateur, agitprop, autarky, cabal, egalitarianism, federalism, hegemony, plenipotentiary, popular sovereignty, socialism

Browse

Next Word in the Dictionary: presidential primary
Previous Word in the Dictionary: president general
All Words Near: presidential government

Seen & Heard

What made you want to look up presidential government? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).