Vice president

A vice president is someone who helps a president conduct his or her duties. A vice president also takes over if a president is not available. In business and in government a vice president (VP) is below a president in rank. Vice is comes from Latin meaning 'in place of'.^[1] In British English a vice president in business is called a director. In some countries, a vice president is called a deputy president.^[2]

1. ↑ "vice", etymologyonlive.com
2. ↑ Constitutional Law of 10 EU Member States: The 2004 Enlargement, eds. Constantijn A J M Kortmann; Miluše Kindlová (Deventer: Kluwer, 2006), p. xxxiv