leadership

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the activity of leading

   My leadership inspired the team.

2. 2
   noun

   the ability to lead

   They believed that leadership can be taught by practicing with small groups and working up to responsibilities with larger ones.

3. 3
   noun

   the body of people who lead a group

   The national leadership adopted the plan.

4. 4
   noun

   the status of a leader

   They challenged the union's leadership.

5. 5
   noun

   The capacity of someone to lead others.

   Personal leadership is a fundamental of successful government. I do not mean the leadership of the band of good fellows and good schemers who followed President Harding, nor the purely perfunctory party loyalty which has part of the time in part of the country sustained the present Chief Executive. I mean that leadership which, by sheer force of mind, by chain of unanswerable logic, has brought friends and foes alike to enact vitally needed measures of government reform.

6. 6
   noun

   A group of leaders.

   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?

7. 7
   noun

   The office or status of a leader.

Etymology

From leader + -ship.