factorshipn.
/ˈfaktəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈfæktərˌʃɪp/ The office or position of factor; (also) the term of office of a factor. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.
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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
society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one who acts for another > position of
factorshipc1550
factory1560
agentry1590
factoryship1836
the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [noun] > specifically of immaterial things
dilatation1448
propagation1531
dilating1532
enlargement1607
dilationa1631
radiationa1631
dispreadinga1652
factorship1697
rayonnement1910
haemorrhaging1967
c1550 Tenours & Fourme Indentures f. ii They..shall ioyntly as parteners occupy together, as wel in byinge and sellyng..as by factorship alienation, exchaunges, & otherwyse.
1582 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 162 What you shall doe in Turkie, besides the businesse of your Factorship.
1608 in A. P. McGowan Jacobean Comm. Enq., 1608 & 1618 (1971) (modernized text) 225 And being asked whether it was after his factorship for the Officers or before he sayeth it was after.
a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 188 My friend..had happily pleased my Lady L. in his Factorship.
1697 D. Hamilton Private Christian's Witness ii. 152 We have some so openly confident, as in Print to tell us, That nothing is Mysterious in the Gospel.., endeavouring thereby to act Factorship for Satan.
1774 J. Johnson Let. 18 July in Joshua Johnson's Letterbk. (1979) 149 I shall be prepared to render a just and fair account..of my factorship and transactions.
1835 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. xxi. 353 In a few years after he had appointed him to the factorship, he disposed of all his lands.
1865 Minutes of Evid. Law Landlord's Right of Hypothec in Scotl. 270 in Parl. Papers XVII. 441 During his factorship, he devoted himself entirely to the duties of his charge.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Oct. 7/2 A class which contributes pretty largely to the factorship of immorality and sin.
1914 N. Munro New Road v He..secured the factorship wi' Islay.
1936 Agric. Hist. 12 87 During his factorship boring for coal was begun on the estate.
1937 Official Gaz. Colony & Protectorate Kenya 16 Feb. 189 Any income arising..through or from any factorship, agency, receivership, branch or management.
2005 B. Silversides Fort de Prairies i. 11/1 The factorship of Edmonton was assumed later in 1823 by John Rowand.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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