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ministership

ministership

1 6.7
The time a person has a government or church job
  • noun
  • /ˈmɪnɪstərˌʃɪp/
  • Formal
translation icon : ministerio
  • During her prime ministership, the country saw significant improvements in education and healthcare.
  • the prime ministership

Examples

  • The 1991 assassination of Rajiv Gandhi as he campaigned to retake the prime ministership neither hastened nor inhibited the decline of India's Congress Party.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The prime ministership was always bypassed in policymaking and was rarely filled by a popular figure.

    Academic text (1992)

  • I think that she lived in those weeks more fully than at any other time in her prime ministership, I think.

  • I assumed I'd receive the prime ministership.

    The Affair of the Necklace (2001)

  • And Trudeau lately of the Prime ministership of Canada ran down to Mar a Lago to meet with the president.

  • If you were Benjamin Netanyahu, who would you least like to confront as your main rival for the prime ministership three months from now?

    Blog text (34)

  • The ascension of Mario Monti to the Italian prime ministership is remarkable for more reasons than it is possible to count.

    Blog text (7)

  • His second prime ministership, from 1955 to 1963, ended in acrimony, scandal, and rebellion by politicians long subject to his autocratic fits of temper.

    Academic text (1998)

  • This "semidemocratic" period led to the onset of democracy in the elections of August 1988, when Chatichai Choonhavan, of the Chart Thai Party, won the prime ministership.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Bush promises him a wealthy retirement, and boy is he now cashing in (he and Shari just bought a grand house close to 5 million pounds in London), and Tony delivered England to the war in Iraq, and never strayed from the Bush line for his entire prime ministership.

    Blog text (7)

Synonyms

ministry
vsministership
102 6.4

The work a religious leader does to care for and teach a church

names the office or period rather than the duties or work
pastorate
vsministership
1 8.3

The time when a person serves as the leader of a church

is broader, covering similar offices in government as well as church
pastorship
vsministership
1 8.0

The period when a person leads and cares for a church

is used more widely to include government positions not only church roles
vicarship
vsministership
9.9

The job of a leader who cares for a local church

is broader applying to offices beyond deputy roles and to government

Surface Forms

ministership singular
ministerships plural

Morphology

ministership = minister (transparent) = minister + ship

Formed by the noun 'minister' plus the productive suffix '-ship' meaning office or status, so the meaning 'position or period of being a minister' is directly derived.

Etymology

Ministership comes from minister, which originally meant 'servant', and the ending -ship, which means 'the state or office of'. So ministership is the time or position when someone 'serves' as a minister, which is why it means the office or period of being a minister.