premiership
See also: Premiership
English
Etymology
From premier + -ship.
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file)
Noun
premiership (plural premierships)
- The office of a premier or prime minister.
- 2018, The Observer, The Observer view on the budget and the decade of austerity, 28 October :
- There is a familiar pattern that has come to define Theresa May’s premiership. Encouraging rhetoric gets periodically wheeled out: the pledges to ease the burden on the “just about managing”; the promises to fight the “burning injustices” of social inequality. But then a few weeks later, the chancellor gets up at the dispatch box to deliver a budget or an autumn statement and it’s as if those words had never been uttered.
- 2018, The Observer, The Observer view on the budget and the decade of austerity, 28 October :
- (Australia, sporting) The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
Synonyms
- prime ministership
- championship (in the sporting sense)
- title (in the sporting sense)
Derived terms
- premiership quarter
Translations
office of a premier or prime minister
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