POTUS

Definition

Acronym of President of the United States.

Etymology

Phillips Code abbreviation, 1895. In more common usage since the 1990s.

Example Sentences

• "The medical history of the principal is extremely important in assessing risk in any given protective detail for a myriad of activities of the protectee [34]. Once again, using the example of the POTUS or former POTUSs (the POTUS has Secret Service protection for life), the range of health status is from extremely healthy and physically active to relatively sedentary with significant medical problems, including endocrine, metabolic, and/or cardiac, with an implantable automatic defibrillator in one protectee."
• "Isumbras does not seem to be returning to the place he came from and Jack Bauer keeps leaving his job and returns to it several times – he always tries to lead a “normal” life and is never given such a possibility. Assuming however, that even partial re-integration carries the force of a closure, Bauer is rewarded with friendships among the high and mighty (successive POTUSs of the series feature, Isumbras fares better than Jack, as he receives “more welthe thenne evere he was” (l. 761)⁴⁸."
• "It makes sense that ex-POTUSes don't tend to make it onto juries."