chairmanship

noun

Definition of chairmanshipnext
as in presidency

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Recent Examples of chairmanship Martin also has the support of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who stood behind Martin’s chairmanship while stumping in Pennsylvania over the weekend. — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 27 July 2026 The flare-up complicates a week Manila had hoped would showcase its ASEAN chairmanship. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 21 July 2026 Those include Judiciary, Appropriations, Environment and Public Works, and his Budget Committee chairmanship. — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 14 July 2026 Quinn also made the decision to go play piano in New York at the end of last season after a steamy back and forth with Staten, whose father (Brett Cullen) challenged him for chairmanship of the Double K Ranch. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 June 2026 That is the inheritance now facing Warsh, who has openly cast Greenspan as a model for his own chairmanship. — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 23 June 2026 Murley, a member of the Lake Forest College board since 2019, assumed the chairmanship on June 1. — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026 In the aftermath of 2020, Jones was stripped of a committee chairmanship and frozen out of Senate GOP leadership. — Shannon McCaffrey, AJC.com, 10 June 2026 The Washington state Democrat is now the ranking member on Armed Services and a likely candidate to reclaim the chairmanship should his party retake the House. — Nik Popli, Time, 8 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chairmanship
  1. presidency
  2. deanship
  3. governorship
  4. kingship
  5. superintendency
  6. dictatorship
  7. premiership
  8. generalship
Noun
  • Something really amazing is happening under his presidency — in Canada.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
  • As Jair Bolsonaro mounted a successful campaign for the presidency, Flávio Bolsonaro ran for one of Rio de Janeiro’s seats in the Federal Senate.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of presidency
Noun
  • An additional $5 million will fund a deanship, $3 million will support a chair in biomedical engineering, and $5 million will establish a research fund for faculty fellowships, emphasizing cross-disciplinary collaboration.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Definition of deanship
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  • The most destructive wildfire in state history, a blaze that killed 85 people and destroyed more than 18,000 buildings in Northern California, started two days after Newsom won the governorship in 2018.
    — Sophie Austin, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Jeanie, meanwhile, clearly has no intention of selling her shares before the rest of her governorship is up.
    — Dan Woike, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of governorship
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  • York is told that Somerset is imprisoned in the Tower of London, but when this is disproved by Somerset’s entrance, York announces his claim to the kingship.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • In the ancient kingship tradition, endangering the empire would cause a king to lose his farr.
    — Azadeh Moaveni, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
Definition of kingship
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  • Carvalho’s later Form 700s — for the entire period of his superintendency — are nearly blank.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
  • The fallout In the aftermath of the UFT’s formal notice, a letter campaign was launched that asked Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels not to appoint Lynch-Reyes to the permanent superintendency.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2026
Definition of superintendency
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  • This was a time of right wing dictatorships in some Latin American countries.
    — Chick Pritchard, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Democratic change culminated with the election in 1998 of President Kim Dae-jung, a heroic opponent of dictatorship.
    — Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of dictatorship
Noun
  • And even after a military coup removed Thaksin from the premiership in 2006, his parties remained electoral juggernauts.
    — Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The fractures in Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s premiership are beginning to show.
    — Will Barker, TheWeek, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of premiership
Noun
  • Suggs is listed as the team’s point guard, but because of his tendency for turnovers and general lack of floor generalship, the coaches have deployed him more as a 3-and-D player.
    — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • There’s talk that this could be EMRO’s turn to hold the director-generalship.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 14 Apr. 2026
Definition of generalship

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“Chairmanship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chairmanship. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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