leadership

English

Etymology

From leader +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlidɚʃɪp/
• IPA^(key): /ˈliːdəʃɪp/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: lead‧er‧ship

Noun

leadership (countable and uncountable, plural leaderships)

1. The capacity of someone to lead others.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, via PC, →ISBN, →OCLC, scene: Citadel:

     Shepard: You have a plan?
     Ambassador Udina: The galaxy needs leadership. Real leadership. When a crisis hits, we can't be paralyzed by debate like the old Council.
     Ambassador Udina: The new Council must rule with a single voice. It must be assembled from one species alone -- humanity!

2. A group of leaders.
   • 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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?

3. The office or status of a leader.

Translations

capacity to lead

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: قِيَادَة f (qiyāda)
• Armenian: ղեկավարություն (hy) (ġekavarutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: rəhbərlik, liderlik
• Belarusian: лі́дарства n (lídarstva)
• Bulgarian: ли́дерство n (líderstvo)
• Catalan: lideratge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 領導能力／领导能力 (zh), 领导能力 (zh) (lǐngdǎo nénglì)

• Czech: vůdcovství n
• Danish: førerskab n
• Dutch: voorzitterschap (nl) n, leiderschap (nl) n
• Esperanto: kondukemeco
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: johtajuus (fi)
• French: autorité (fr) f, charisme (fr) f, leadership (fr) m
• Georgian: წინამძღვრობა (c̣inamʒɣvroba), ლიდერობა (lideroba), ხელმძღვანელობა (xelmʒɣvaneloba), მეთაურობა (metauroba)
• German: Führung (de) f, Leitung (de) f
• Hungarian: vezetői képesség (hu)
• Japanese: リーダーシップ (rīdāshippu), 指導力 (しどうりょく, shidōryoku)
• Kazakh: қолбасылық (qolbasylyq), қолбасшылық (qolbasşylyq), лидерлік (liderlık)
• Korean: 지도력(指導力) (ko) (jidoryeok), 리더십 (rideosip)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سەرکردەیی (serkirdeyî)

• Kyrgyz: лидерлик (liderlik), лидерчилик (lidercilik), башчылык (ky) (başcılık), баштоочулук (baştooculuk)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: водство n (vodstvo)
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• Malay: kepimpinan
• Maori: hautūtanga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: манлайлал (mn) (manlajlal)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ledelse m

• Persian: رهبری (fa) (rahbari)
• Polish: przywództwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: liderança (pt) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ли́дерство (ru) n (líderstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: во̀дство n

  Roman: vòdstvo (sh) n

• Slovak: vodcovstvo n
• Slovene: vodstvo n
• Spanish: liderazgo (es)
• Swahili: uongozi (sw)
• Swedish: ledarskap (sv) n
• Tajik: роҳбарӣ (tg) (rohbari)
• Telugu: నాయకత్వం (nāyakatvaṁ)
• Thai: ความเป็นผู้นำ (kwaam-bpen-pûu-nam)
• Turkish: liderlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: лі́дерство (líderstvo)
• Uyghur: رەھبەرلىك (rehberlik)
• Uzbek: liderlik (uz), rahbarlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: khả năng lãnh đạo
• Welsh: arweiniad m

group of leaders

• Belarusian: кіраўні́цтва n (kiraŭníctva)
• Bulgarian: ръково́дство (bg) n (rǎkovódstvo)
• Macedonian: раководство n (rakovodstvo)
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• Malayalam: നേതൃത്വം (ml) (nētr̥tvaṁ)
• Polish: kierownictwo (pl) n
• Russian: руково́дство (ru) n (rukovódstvo)
• Ukrainian: керівни́цтво (uk) n (kerivnýctvo)

office of leader

• Basque: buruzagitza, buzagitza
• Catalan: prefectura f
• Dutch: voorzitterschap (nl) n
• Finnish: johto (fi)
• Galician: xefatura f
• Georgian: ხელმძღვანელობა (xelmʒɣvaneloba)
• Hebrew: רָאשׁוּת f
• Latin: ductus (la) m
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• Macedonian: раководство n (rakovodstvo)
• Polish: przywództwo (pl) n
• Russian: руково́дство (ru) n (rukovódstvo)
• Spanish: jefatura (es) f
• Ukrainian: керівни́цтво (uk) (kerivnýctvo)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} lideratge (ca) m, ^{(please verify)} direcció (ca) f, (military) ^{(please verify)} comandament (ca) m
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} gvidado, ^{(please verify)} ĉefeco
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} juhtimine, ^{(please verify)} eestvedamine
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• German: ^{(please verify)} Führung (de) f, ^{(please verify)} Leitung (de) f, (military) ^{(please verify)} Kommando (de) n
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} liderazgo (es) m, ^{(please verify)} caudillaje m

Anagrams

• dealership, perhalides, rape shield

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French

Alternative forms

• leadeurship

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.dœʁ.ʃip/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

leadership m (plural leaderships)

1. leadership (the characteristics of leading by the leader)

   Synonym: chefferie

Further reading

• “leadership”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.der.ʃip/
• Rhymes: -iderʃip

Noun

leadership f (invariable)

1. leadership