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speakership

speakership

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The position of the person who leads a parliament or assembly
  • noun
  • /ˈspiːkərˌʃɪp/
  • Formal
: presidencia
  • After a fierce election campaign, she officially took up the speakership of the legislative assembly.
  • won the speakership
  • resign the speakership
  • losing the speakership

I'm like, guys, forcing a vote is a terrific idea on the speakership.

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Examples

  • Speaker Boehner knows which voters he needs to be responsive to, and those are the ones that gave him a Republican majority in the House and the Speakership again!

    Blog text (5)

  • He is an overwhelming failure, and I am sure that he will be voted out of the speakership next January when the new GOP administration and Congress is seated.

    Blog text (13)

  • Speaker, and to wish you a long and successful life after your speakership has come to an end.

  • A message for the speaker: put country first and resign the speakership so we can get a real man or woman in that spot.

    Blog text (24)

  • In the 15 years after he left the speakership, the speaker has been working as an influence peddler in Washington.

    Blog text (29)

  • Jim Jordan or another reliable conservative should challenge him for the Speakership, and the whole left-wing leadership in the House needs to go as well.

    Blog text (32)

  • Such a strategy is all the more dangerous for a Democratic establishment that lost the debate about health care even when it had the speakership and thus the ability to control the House's agenda.

    Academic text (2011)

  • And under this current speakership, we've had the fewest open amendments of any speakership.

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  • This race is worth watching simply for the margin: Dorworth will have to win re-election once more in 2014 before he assumes his speakership.

    Blog text (10)

  • Laurel was duly nominated at a Nacionalista Party convention, but Enrile had his eye on the House Speakership.

    Academic text (1992)

Surface Forms

speakership singular
speakerships plural

Morphology

speakership = speaker (transparent) = speaker + ship

Formed by adding the productive noun-forming suffix '-ship' to 'speaker', yielding 'the office or position of a speaker', which is a directly derivable meaning.

Etymology

Speakership comes from the verb speak meaning 'to talk' and the ending -ship that turns a word into a role or office, as in leadership or friendship. So speakership means the office or position of the Speaker who speaks for a parliament or assembly.