CHAIRMANSHIP Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

chairmanship

noun

Definition of chairmanship

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

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Noun

The fight over the plan to sell off parts of the World Cup and other signature FIFA events to private businesses has tested that bulletproof presidency.

— Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
During his presidency Trump would become the first president to be impeached twice.

— Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of presidency

Noun

Democrats are aiming to keep control of the Michigan governorship in what is expected to be a competitive general election race.

— New York Times, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
The ruling, expected to be appealed, adds election uncertainty as Democrats battle to retain the governorship and flip the Legislature.

— Scott Bauer, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026

Definition of governorship

Noun

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

Noun

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

Noun

Outside of dictatorships, modern central bankers generally don’t have to fear for their lives, but they are sometimes subjected to heavy criticism.

— John Cassidy, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
None of Argentina’s players had been born when the country’s military dictatorship invaded the Malvinas in 1982, holding the islands for 73 days before British forces recaptured them in a war that killed 649 Argentine and 255 British troops.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026

Definition of dictatorship

Noun

Van Heel’s family experience with cancer Burnham previously served as Health Secretary under the premiership of Gordon Brown from 2009 to 2010, then as the shadow Health Secretary following Labour’s defeat in the 2010 general election.

— Olivia-Anne Cleary, Time, 23 July 2026
London — Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham entered 10 Downing Street on Monday, making few detailed policy statements but offering plenty of clues about the nature of his premiership.

— Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 20 July 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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