chairmanship

noun

Definition of chairmanshipnext
as in presidency

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chairmanship
  1. presidency
  2. governorship
  3. kingship
  4. superintendency
  5. dictatorship
  6. generalship
  7. mastery
  8. jurisdiction
Noun
  • Under current law, the federal government would hit its borrowing limit sometime in the spring of 2025, during the first months of the second Trump presidency.
    Jonathan Karl, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, a seasoned hand, will take a visible role when Poland assumes the presidency of the Council of the European Union next year.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of presidency
Noun
  • Harris has yet to give any public indication on her thoughts and those close to her suggest the governorship is not immediately top of mind.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Separately, if DeSantis left the governor’s office to lead the Pentagon, this would also elevate the Sunshine State’s current lieutenant governor, Jeanette Nuñez, to the governorship.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 4 Dec. 2024
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
  • 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
  • Older generations lived under the violent military dictatorships of the nineteen-sixties, seventies, and eighties, and young people are aware of this legacy.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Of 5,000 people held at the school during the dictatorship, fewer than 250 survived.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 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
  • Thursday’s event – an annual display of Putin’s mastery of the minutiae of domestic policy as well as of geopolitics – consists of a public Q&A session combined with a public phone-in.
    Anna Chernova, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Willimon had proven his mastery of story not only on House of Cards but the Star Wars spinoff Andor.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of mastery
Noun
  • Part of the challenge in monitoring drone activity stems from the fact regulation of the skies is almost entirely under federal jurisdiction, according to the chief executive of a company tracking unauthorized drone flights.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
  • If Mace's measure were passed, its management would fall under the jurisdiction of the sergeant-at-arms, which is the chief law enforcement officer at the House of Representatives.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of jurisdiction
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