ministershipn.
/ˈmɪnᵻstəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈmɪnəstərˌʃɪp/ The position or office of minister; the fact of being a minister.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government minister > [noun] > office or position of
ministership1567
ministryship1730
portefeuille1756
portfolio1781
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. iv. xvi. i. 459 Howe vainely you snappe..nowe at our Superintendenteshippes: nowe at our Ministershippes.
1742 H. Walpole Let. 3 Mar. (1857) I. 137 Think of his talking of making it dangerous for anyone else to accept the first ministership!
1858 Littell's Living Age 14 Aug. 553/2 He has marked the want of success by withdrawing the Ministership of the Interior, but honored the crime with the Senatorship of the Empire.
1863 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. We are obliged to write of Sir James Hudson's Ministership as a thing of the past.
1872 Daily News 1 Oct. 5 I am not a footman, and the ministership you would give me under a régime such as this would be a menial office.
1923 Polit. Sci. Q. 38 (Suppl.) 108 Taking the ministership of Interior himself, he selected Count Skrzynski for Foreign Affairs.
1967 Economist 8 Apr. 112/1 The ‘Wabenze’, the new but already well-known African people whose tribal mark is a ministership and a Mercedes.
1987 N. Ward Dawson's Govt. Canada (ed. 6) x. 195 Acts of Parliament have created the government departments and individual ministerships.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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