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Definition of Collectorship
1. n. The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
Definition of Collectorship
1. Noun. The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Collectorship
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collectorship
Literary usage of Collectorship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson by Gideon Welles (1911)
"... JG Holies from the Hartford collectorship— Texas desires Protection from Indian
Depredations — The Jefferson Davis Case — Election Returns from ..."
2. Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir by Thurlow Weed, Harriet A. Weed, Thurlow Weed Barnes (1883)
"THE NEW YORK collectorship.—OFFICE SEEKING.—VICE-PRESIDENT HAMLIN. — JA GILMER.
IMMEDIATELY after the nomination of Mr. Lincoln for President, at Chicago, ..."
3. Colonel Alexander K. McClure's Recollections of Half a Century by Alexander Kelly McClure (1902)
"... his conflict with President Hayes and Secretary Sherman, which resulted in
his removal from the collectorship of New York charged with the abuse of his ..."
4. The United States in Our Own Time: A History from Reconstruction to by Elisha Benjamin Andrews (1903)
"FIGHT OVER THE NEW YORK collectorship. THE PRESIDENT FIRM AND VICTORIOUS.
PARTLY the mode of his accession to office and partly the rage of selfish placemen ..."
5. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine by Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs (1909)
"In 1846 he was appointed by President Polk to the customs collectorship of the
Waldoboro district, serving until 1849. He was again appointed by President ..."
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