Usually means: Oversee or manage an event.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word preside:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. preside: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. preside: Merriam-Webster
  3. preside: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. preside: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. preside: Collins English Dictionary
  6. preside: Vocabulary.com
  7. Preside, preside: Wordnik
  8. preside: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. preside: Wiktionary
  10. preside: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. preside: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. preside: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. preside: Dictionary.com
  14. preside: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. preside: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Preside: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. preside: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. preside: Rhymezone
  19. preside, preside: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. preside: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. preside: FreeDictionary.org
  22. preside: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. preside: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. preside: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. preside: Legal dictionary

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  1. preside: Idioms

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verb:  (intransitive) To act as president or chairperson.
verb:  (intransitive) To exercise authority or control.
verb:  (intransitive, music) To be a featured solo performer.

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