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ship (oh)



[Language: Old English; Origin: -scipe]
a) a particular position or job, or the time during which you have it
::He was offered a professorship (=the job of professor) .
::in Mr Major's premiership (=when he was prime minister)
::her application for British citizenship
the state of having something
::Private car ownership has almost doubled in the past 10 years.
::Their friendship developed soon afterwards.
a particular art or skill
::his superb musicianship
::a work of great scholarship
-see also -manship
all the people in a particular group
::a magazine with a readership of 9000 (=with 9000 readers)