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deanship

noun

as in presidency

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Recent Examples of deanship 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deanship
  1. presidency
  2. chairmanship
  3. superintendency
  4. governorship
  5. kingship
  6. dictatorship
  7. premiership
  8. generalship
Noun
  • McGovern lost, Obama won—but Obama won the presidency without transforming the Democratic foreign-policy class.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Infantino moved this week to calm critics of his hands-on executive presidency by offering to open an independent review of FIFA’s governance standards and decision-making.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of presidency
Noun
  • Following the meeting, on August 13, Meyer appointed a Policy Formulation Committee, under the chairmanship of Israel Friedlander, founder of an important local bank, the Gibraltar Savings and Loan Association.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • As China takes over chairmanship of BRICS for the coming year, the focus will undoubtedly shift toward implementing these smart manufacturing initiatives and institutionalizing the special economic zones.
    — Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of chairmanship
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
  • This extends to the series building a side plot around McConaughey’s recurring flirtation with launching a bid for the Texas governorship.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
  • No Democrat has won the governorship since 2006, but the Cook Political Report recently rated the race as leaning Democratic.
    — Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 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
  • The United Kingdom has controlled the Falklands since 1833, and fought a brief war over the islands in the early 1980s after the Argentine military dictatorship attempted to seize the territory by force.
    — Adrienne Vogt, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Here, Americans want to live in a democracy, not a dictatorship.
    — S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 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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“Deanship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deanship. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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