premiership
see also: Premiership
Noun
Premiership
Pronunciation
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see also: Premiership
Noun
premiership (plural premierships)
- The office of a premier or prime minister.
- 2018, The Observer, The Observer view on the budget and the decade of austerity ↗, 28 October :
- 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.
- 2018, The Observer, The Observer view on the budget and the decade of austerity ↗, 28 October :
- (Australia, sporting) The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
- prime ministership
- championship (in the sporting sense)
- title (in the sporting sense)
Premiership
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈpɹɛmɪəʃɪp/, /-mjə-/
- (British, football) the Premier League of English association football
- (British, rugby) Premiership Rugby, the top division of English rugby union
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