agentshipn.
/ˈeɪdʒ(ə)ntʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈeɪdʒ(ə)ntˌʃɪp/ The position, role, or function of an agent (in various senses); agency. Also: an instance of this.
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society > authority > delegated authority > action or function of a delegate or deputy > [noun] > management on behalf of another or stewardship
bailliec1305
bailieshipc1375
dispensingc1380
dispensationc1384
dispending1388
procuracya1425
procuration1484
umboth1509
stewardship1526
proctorship1535
stewarding1548
bailiwick1550
farmership1551
factory1560
agency1600
bailiffwick1605
agentship1608
factorage1639
proctorage1641
oeconomacy1651
soliciting1663
stewartrya1763
factordom1888
1608 J. Bavant Let. 26 Nov. in Lett. Thomas Fitzherbert (1948) 80 To remove your Agent Mr Fitzharbert from his Agenttshippe.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Lovers Progres v. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mmm3 v/2 So goodie agent? and you think there is No punishment due for your agentship?
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. v. iii. 337 If there be any such Residentship or Agentship now establish'd; 'tis not immediately from God himself.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials II. ii. x. 325 He beseeched that he might be discharged of his Office of Agentship.
1810 W. Cobbett Let. in Paper against Gold (1815) I. xviii. 321 He obtained the Agentship of the Island of Ceylon, acknowledged by himself to be worth 700 pounds a year.
1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 214 Hence there exists, in spirit, agentship and non-agentship.
1942 Times 3 July 7/5 He became their [sc. a railway company's] first agent... He resigned the agentship in the summer of 1902.
1997 Jrnl. Commerce (Nexis) 29 Jan. 12 c Mrs. Basler-Hartweger is interested in an agentship in Switzerland for men's apparel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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