Madame presidency, Get a life! Get a Lifeline

Madame Chiang Kai-shek (1897-2003): wife of Chiang Kai-shek and advocate for his government

BRIEFING: Sarkozy's France

The presidency as theatre Mr Sarkozy's first year in the office has brought only limited change to France. Even if he grows less distracted, he may find reform harder to achieve

Underwater Stock Options Get a Lifeline From Firms 
Nearly 100 companies have undertaken programs that allow employees, many of them executives, to exchange sharply depreciated stock options for new awards with more generous terms. 
(By Tomoeh Murakami Tse, The Washington Post)

Get a life! INFORMAL

something you say to a boring person when you want them to do more exciting things:

Don't tell me you're cleaning the house on a Saturday night? Get a life, Hannah!

president (POLITICS) Show phonetics
noun [C]
(the title given to) the person who has the highest political position in a country which is a republic and who, in some of these countries, is the leader of the government:
President Kennedy
the President of France
[as form of address] Thank you, Mr/Madam President.

presidential Show phonetics
adjective [usually before noun]
a presidential candidate/campaign/election

presidency Show phonetics


noun [C usually singular]

the job of being president, or the period when someone is a president:

He has announced that he is running for the presidency.

She won the presidency by a wide margin.


Madame
Dictionary: Ma·dame (mə-dăm', măd'əm)


n., pl. Mes·dames (mā-dăm', -däm'). (Abbr. Mme.)
Used as a courtesy title before the surname or full name of a woman, especially a married woman, in a French-speaking area: Madame Cartier; Madame Jacqueline Cartier.
madame Used as a form of polite address for a woman in a French-speaking area.

[French, from Old French ma dame : ma, my (from Latin mea, feminine of meus) + dame, lady (from Latin domina, feminine of dominus, lord, master of a household).]