engineershipn.
/ˌɛn(d)ʒᵻˈnɪəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˌɛndʒəˈnɪrˌʃɪp/ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > engineering > [noun]
engining1606
engineership1652
engineery1691
engineering1697
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > in something specified
engineership1652
to have one's sea legs on1712
adeptship1816
social skills1923
chops1968
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved To Rdr. sig. c4v Their pretences of great abilities in Engineership.
1661 Earl of Orrery Coll. State Lett. (1743) I. 62 I..pretend something to engineership.
1827 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 3 Nov. 359/2 Galloway's engineership was quite upon a level of the politics of his great patron.
1830 Bristol Mercury 5 Oct. A specious display of engineership.
2. The office or position of engineer. Also: the control or direction of an engineer. Now chiefly historical.
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society > occupation and work > position or job > [noun] > position or office of specific workers
plumbership1455
portership1521
clerkship1531
factorshipc1550
pavership1597
mastership1688
private secretaryship1789
writership1810
taskmastership1815
factoryship1836
engineership1839
foremanship1853
improvership1864
call boy1877
gaffership1895
producership1924
operatorship1934
1839 Bristol Mercury 14 Dec. 5/6 His appointment to the engineership.
1860 N. Wales Chron. 22 Sept. When he resigned the engineership it was one of the most flourishing concerns in the world.
1883 J. Nasmyth Autobiogr. xvi. 288 The railway had been constructed under the engineership of Major Whistler.
1926 Times 13 Nov. 11/3 The witness said he had..recommended him for the chief engineership.
1999 R. White Gentlemen Engineers iii. 90 Walter's chief engineership was..a position quite distant from the chipping of stone and the packing of earth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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