premiership

noun

Definition of premiershipnext
as in presidency

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Recent Examples of premiership Gyurov has often expressed firm support for Ukraine and signed a security cooperation agreement with Kyiv during his premiership. — Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026 Bennett and Liberman have not endorsed Eisenkot and both have their own premiership aspirations. — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026 Gyurov, who has often expressed firm support for Ukraine, signed a security cooperation agreement with Kyiv during his premiership. — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026 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 Not all of world soccer is united in opposition to Infantino’s premiership, however. — Joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026 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 Ali al-Zaidi emerged as a consensus candidate in Iraq after months of deadlock over the premiership following last year’s parliamentary elections. — Seung Min Kim, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for premiership
  1. presidency
  2. dictatorship
  3. kingship
  4. chairmanship
  5. governorship
  6. deanship
  7. generalship
  8. mastery
Noun
  • This president has seized way too much power in this imperial presidency.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The presidency said the military deployment began the day after the clashes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of presidency
Noun
  • His raspy voice, his beard, his missing finger and the cadence of his speech have been fixtures of Brazilian public life since Brazil’s first direct presidential election after the dictatorship ended in 1985.
    — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026
  • This strategy is unlikely to work on liberal Israelis, who view this election as the last chance to save their homeland from sliding into dictatorship.
    — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of dictatorship
Noun
  • After Edward the Confessor died with no heirs, Harold was crowned in January 1066, but William also claimed the kingship.
    — Alicja Zelazko, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 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 transaction failed to materialize and cost Musk his chairmanship of Tesla.
    — Rob Wile, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Collins’ chairmanship explains her most recent advantage, but not her entire record.
    — Nicholas Jacobs, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of chairmanship
Noun
  • Democrats are trying to flip the governorship as Democratic former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms faces Republican businessman Rick Jackson in a race both parties see as competitive.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Others remembered LePage’s governorship in a positive light and planned to vote for him this fall.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of governorship
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
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
Noun
  • Centuries later, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre distinguished external goods, such as money and status, from goods internal to a practice, such as a farmer’s growing mastery of her land or an architect’s pursuit of elegant, functional design.
    — Stacy Keltner, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The duo’s Red Marrow Media is known for its mastery of extreme-location logistics and pioneering cross-border financing models.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of mastery

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