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Definition of Premiership

1. Noun. The office of premier.

Definition of Premiership

1. n. The office of the premier.

Definition of Premiership

1. Proper noun. (British football) the (w FA Premier League) ¹

2. Noun. The office of a premier or prime minister. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Premiership

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Premiership

Literary usage of Premiership

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In 1898 he again accepted the premiership, but his cabinet was soon overthrown. On 8 June 1906 he was elected president of the House. ..."

2. Memoirs of the Life and Reign of King George the Third by John Heneage Jesse (1867)
"Fox and his friends agree to recommend the Duke of Portland to the King as Premier —William Pitt pressed to accept the Premiership, but declines—The offi'-t ..."

3. The Far East Unveiled: An Inner History of Events in Japan and China in the by Frederic Abernethy Coleman (1918)
"More than one editor made forecast that Terauchi "s premiership would mean less freedom of the Press in Japan itself. On the day following his official ..."

4. Life of Canning by Harold William Vazeille Temperley (1905)
"CHAPTER XIII THE STRUGGLE FOR THE Premiership AND THE END (February to August ... THE history of Canning's premiership is rather that of the formation of a ..."

5. The Holland House Circle by Lloyd Charles Sanders (1908)
""HE premiership of wit had many claimants under X the Regency. Lady Granville assigned it to Frere, and placed Lord Dudley above Luttrell, on the score of ..."

6. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"Premiership of Lord Bute, 1762. His sudden fall. His continued secret influence under the Grenville Ministry. In pursuance of his settled resolve to wrest ..."

7. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Philip Arthur Ashworth (1905)
"Premiership of Lord Bute, 1762. His sudden fall. His continued secret influence under the Grenville Ministry. In pursuance of his settled resolve to wrest ..."

8. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King by Charles Greville (1899)
"Interview of Lord Lansdowne with the King—Weakness of the Government—First Resignation of Lord Goderich—Lord Harrowby declines the Premiership—Lord Goderich ..."

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