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caˈdetship
[f. cadet1 + -ship.]
1. The status of a younger son.
1831Disraeli Yng. Duke iii. iii. (L.) The ambitious prospects with which he had consoled himself for his cadetship.
2. The position or status of a military or naval cadet; the commission given to a cadet.
1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 55 For the artillery and engineers, it is a condition of the presentation of a cadetship that the candidate should have gone through a regular course of instruction at Addiscombe. 1854Blackw. Mag. LXXVI. 667 The age of entering on their cadetship. 1884Harper's Mag. May 866/1 Candidates for cadetship in the Royal Navy.
3. N.Z. The position or status of a young man learning sheep-farming on a sheep-station.
1842R. G. Jameson N.Z., S. Aust. & N.S.W. xxiv. 337 Colonial cadetships. 1853J. Rochfort Adv. Surveyor in N.Z. ii. 20 They had just finished their ‘cadetship’, that is, they had been learning sheep-farming under a settler. |