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jmdict 1414650 Active (id: 2088559)
大統領 [ichi1,news1,nf01]
【 だいとうりょう [ichi1,news1,nf01] 】
1. [n]
▶ president (of a nation)
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1770560 統領【とうりょう】 1. ruler; leader; consul
2. [n] [fam]
《used vocatively; esp. of an actor》
▶ big man
▶ boss
▶ buddy
▶ mate



History:
4. A 2020-11-22 21:01:45  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments: 
The original entry was a long time ago.
3. A* 2020-11-22 20:38:37  Alan
  Refs: 
GG5, Eijiro, Wiktionary (en&jp), Koujien, Daijirin, Japanese Wikipedia
  Comments: 
How on Earth, did the notion of company president get in there?
The English word "president" is veeeery broad and vague, but the Japanese terms that are used for its various meanings, very much are not.
Especially 大統領.
It refers exclusively to a country's president …except for in the second, figurative and tongue-in-cheek, sense, where someone is metaphorically (and very much hyperbolically) referred to, as being as big and important as the president of a country.
  Diff: 
@@ -18,2 +18 @@
-<gloss>president (of a nation or company)</gloss>
-<gloss>chief executive</gloss>
+<gloss>president (of a nation)</gloss>
2. A 2018-06-01 11:40:29  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2018-05-31 03:15:54  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
daij
  Comments: 
saw this in いよう entries in daij and gg5 (ngrams いよっ大統領	4)
  Diff: 
@@ -18 +18 @@
-<gloss>president</gloss>
+<gloss>president (of a nation or company)</gloss>
@@ -20,0 +21,9 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<misc>&fam;</misc>
+<s_inf>used vocatively; esp. of an actor</s_inf>
+<gloss>big man</gloss>
+<gloss>boss</gloss>
+<gloss>buddy</gloss>
+<gloss>mate</gloss>
+</sense>

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jmdict 1414650 Rejected (id: 1148224)
大統領 [ichi1,news1,nf01]
【 だいとうりょう [ichi1,news1,nf01] 】
1. [n]
▶ president
▶ chief executive

History:
2. R 2013-10-09 01:32:36  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments: 
no changes made
1. A* 2013-10-08 10:40:36 

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