premiership
nounEtymology From premier + -ship.
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The office of a premier or prime minister.
- 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 October 28, “The Observer view on the budget and the decade of austerity”, in The Observer:
- And for the EU a Johnson premiership would mean “a mini-Trump across the Channel, dedicated to its sabotage”. Britain would become “a hostile principality, built on social, fiscal and environmental deregulation.”2019 June 13, Jon Henley, “'Mini-Trump across the Channel': EU media on Boris Johnson as British PM”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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Australia The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
- Synonyms
- prime ministership, championship, title
- Derived terms
- minor premiership, premiership quarter