deanship

noun

Definition of deanshipnext
as in presidency

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  1. presidency
  2. superintendency
  3. governorship
  4. kingship
  5. dictatorship
  6. generalship
  7. mastery
Noun
  • What To Know The announcement about Indonesia was made on Monday by Brazil, which holds the presidency of BRICS for 2025.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Trump defeated Harris in November to win back the presidency.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of presidency
Noun
  • As the superintendency reports, continued archaeological investigations will hopefully reveal more about the tomb and the surrounding necropolis, which may illuminate the social history of the ancient Neapolitan community that used it.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2024
  • The superintendency for the largest suburban school district in southwest Ohio became vacant in January 2023, after former superintendent Matt Miller said a board member bullied him out of his position.
    Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 4 May 2024
Definition of superintendency
Noun
  • Judy Shelton got a taste of patent medicine of this sort when she was mobbed out of a Federal Reserve governorship.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • This trend could spell bad news for Republican hopes of holding onto Virginia's governorship.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of governorship
Noun
  • In all this, Jesus was retrieving and modeling some of the remarkable kingship themes from Israel’s own scriptures.
    N.T. Wright, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Each period touches on three themes: society, kingship, and beliefs.
    Nada El Sawy, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of kingship
Noun
  • His first movie in six years, Orphan follows a boy who discovers a dark secret about his origins in the ruins of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against the communist dictatorship.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2025
  • After all, the Carnation Revolution which overthrew four decades of Salazar’s right-wing dictatorship had happened only six years prior.
    Ana Leorne, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of dictatorship
Noun
  • In the event, stronger morale, superior generalship, and Russia’s overconfidence (and consequent expectation of a rapid victory) proved of outsize importance.
    Rajan Menon, Foreign Affairs, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Ultimately, no one commander can make the difference between winning and losing for Ukraine, O’Brien said, and the issues that Kyiv faces right now — with manpower and weaponry running low — are not ones that can be solved by exceptional generalship.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2024
Definition of generalship
Noun
  • Before long Fagin passes on his mastery to a new student who goes by the name of the Artful Dodger.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Kendrick’s mastery of the algorithm can no longer be questioned.
    Rob Marriott, VIBE.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of mastery
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