postmastershipn.1
/ˈpəʊs(t)ˌmɑːstəʃɪp/, /ˈpəʊs(t)ˌmastəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈpoʊs(t)ˌmæstərˌʃɪp/ The office of postmaster (postmaster n.1) (in various senses). Also figurative.
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postmastershipa1603
postmaster-generalship1822
post-mistress-ship1867
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post-mistress-ship1867
a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 107 Howsoeuer the Iesuites take vpon them the postmastership of Angels, they are not able to tell how many miles they goe in a minute.
1623 in Rep. Secret Comm. P.O. (1844) 46 The office which the Lord Stanhope holdeth for Postmastership within our dominions.
1745 H. Walpole Corr. 29 Mar. (1955) XIX. 26 Sir Everard [Fawkener] has since been offered the postmastership.
1804 G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 134 Lord Charles Spencer should be allowed to remain in the other joint Postmastership.
1894 Times 20 Sept. 4/6 [He] called at the shop of the man who had applied for the postmastership.
1977 W. B. Eberhard in D. H. Bond & W. R. McLeod Newslett. to Newspapers ii. 147 I accepted it (the postmastership) readily.
2001 Boston Globe (Nexis) 23 Aug. 8 He began his postal career as a letter carrier in Marlborough in 1987, and remained there for two or three years... Before his official postmastership, he was officer in charge in Bolton, Boylston, and Clinton.
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postmastershipn.2
/ˈpəʊs(t)ˌmɑːstəʃɪp/, /ˈpəʊs(t)ˌmastəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈpoʊs(t)ˌmæstərˌʃɪp/ The position, status or emolument of a postmaster at Merton College, Oxford.The equivalent in Merton of the term scholarship in general college use.
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > student receiving allowance > position of
subsistership?1589
subsizarship1599
servitorship1773
sizarship1782
postmastership1808
1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 386 A good thing, called by the odd name of a postmastership, has been promised him at Merton, which will materially lighten the expense.
1885 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 118 [Merton Coll.] The number of postmasterships or scholarships is 18, but may be increased.
1916 Proc. Royal Soc. 1915–16 A. 92 p. xxii His mathematical work so impressed..one of the examiners,..that if he had gone in at Merton he would have given him their Mathematical Postmastership.
1944 Times 11 Jan. 6/6 He was educated at Eton, where he was in college, and at Merton College, Oxford, where he had a postmastership.
2000 Guardian (Nexis) 24 June 22 Securing a scholarship, quaintly called a postmastership, at Merton College, he studied modern history in 1954-57.
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