receivershipn.
/rᵻˈsiːvəʃɪp/, U.S. /rəˈsivərˌʃɪp/, /riˈsivərˌʃɪp/ 1. The position, function, or office of a receiver (receiver n.1 1a). Now chiefly historical.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > [noun] > exacting or collecting > collector of impost, due, or tax > office of
receivership1485
receiver-generalship1804
1485–6 Act of Resumption in Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1485 m. 15 The receyvourshippe of the hounour of Leycestre.
1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 26 §39 The office of receiuorship of the said lordshippe of Bealth.
1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes vii. f. 233 Accountable of their stewardship, receiuership, and their other offices.
1617 in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 42 My Recevorship of the Lycences of wynes.
1675 W. Dugdale Baronage Eng. I. 436/1 Simon..obtained..the like Office and Receivership for the Mannor of Bedale.
1765 C. Lloyd Let. 24 Aug. in Jenkinson Papers (1949) 380 Brummell has probably informed you of my being dismissed from the Receivership of Gibraltar.
1791 Pitt in G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 112 A letter applying for the Receivership of Kent.
1816 Times 8 July 3/2 Had Mr. Sheridan enjoyed ten receiverships of Cornwall instead of one, he would not have died in affluence.
1885 Act 48 & 49 Victoria c. 40 Preamble It was ordered that..Beisley should be discharged from the said receivership, and that a fresh receiver should be appointed.
1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. ix. 732 Lenin's reconstructed Communist Party was a much more effective step towards an organized receivership.
1958 Econ. Hist. Rev. New Ser. 11 233 The receivership of recusants' rents in the Northern counties, granted 1629.
1996 C. Given-Wilson Eng. Nobility in Late Middle Ages ii. vi. 137 The method adopted—by dividing them according to the existing honours or receiverships—was as traditional as it was convenient.
2. The state or condition of being administered by a receiver (receiver n.1 1c); an instance of this.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [noun] > bankruptcy > appointee administering property of bankrupt > state of being in hands of
receivership1823
1823 Times 16 Dec. 3/5 The Court would be bound to frame an order which would do away with the receivership, and put an end to all further litigation in this cause.
1884 Q. Rev. July 79 [The railway] had gone through the lingering diseases of receivership and reorganisation.
1934 Yale Law Jrnl. 45 584 The lessor of a non-assignable lease..was held to have an absolute right to intervene in receivership proceedings, because the receiver had sold the lease.
1967 R. Stein Great Cars 222/2 Other troubles piled up. In 1921, Lincoln was forced into receivership, and Ford bought the company.
1995 Australian 15 Dec. (Brisbane ed.) 23/8 Receiverships in NSW and the ACT were at their lowest level in seven years... ‘However, other forms of administration such as voluntary administrations have increased dramatically.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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