Premiership
name, noun
name, noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The office of a premier or prime minister.
"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."
- 2 the office of premier wordnet
- 3 The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football). Australia
Proper Noun
- 1 The Premier League of English association football. British
- 2 Premiership Rugby, the top division of English rugby union. British
Example
More examples"His urbanity gained him the premiership."
Etymology
From premier + -ship.
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