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Definition of Collectorships
1. collectorship [n] - See also: collectorship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collectorships
Literary usage of Collectorships
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of Lord Jeffrey, with a Selection from His Correspondence by Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Henry Cockburn Cockburn (1852)
"In summer of 1801 both collectorships were vacant. Jeffrey presented himself to
his brethren as a candidate for one of them, and had the honour of being ..."
2. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"This Lent the collectors ceased from entertaining the Bachelors by advice and
command of the proctors; so that now they got by their collectorships, ..."
3. Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis by Charles Cornwallis Cornwallis (1859)
"The receipts from the tax levied on licences in the other collectorships being
inconsiderable when compared with the produce of the tax on stills, ..."
4. Bengal Ms. Records: A Selected List of 14,136 Letters in the Board of by William Wilson Hunter, West Bengal (India). Board of Revenue (1894)
"Letter from Governor-General in Council directing new arrangement of country into
Collectorships. February 5. Answered February 16. 1267. 1268. 1269. 1270. ..."
5. Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz (1913)
"... to correct, as soon as it can conveniently be done, some of the mistakes made,
for instance, in the internal revenue collectorships in New England. ..."
6. The Working Constitution of the United Kingdom and Its Outgrowths by Leonard Henry Courtney Courtney (1901)
"... are assigned on their arrival in India to different posts of local administration,
such as assistant-collectorships of revenue, from which they rise to ..."
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