Premiership

Quick meaning: Premiership is a noun meaning The office of a premier or prime minister.

Meaning

The office of a premier or prime minister.

More Meanings

1. (Australia, sporting) The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).

Example Sentences

And for the EU a Johnson premiership would mean “a mini-Trump across the Channel, dedicated to its sabotage”. Britain would become “a hostile principality, built on social, fiscal and environmental deregulation.”

There is a familiar pattern that has come to define Theresa May’s premiership. Encouraging rhetoric gets periodically wheeled out: the pledges to ease the burden on the “just about managing”; the promises to fight the “burning injustices” of social inequality. But then a few weeks later, the chancellor gets up at the dispatch box to deliver a budget or an autumn statement and it’s as if those words had never been uttered.

Word Forms

• premierships

Synonyms for premiership

Depending on context, synonyms include championship, title.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cabinet, mandate, chairmanship, presidency, presidential, prime.

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