premiership

Definitions

1. The office of a premier or prime minister.
2. The Premier League of English association football.
   British
3. The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
   Australia
4. Premiership Rugby, the top division of English rugby union.
   British

Equivalents

Examples

“There is a familiar pattern that has come⟳ to define⟳ Theresa May’s premiership. Encouraging rhetoric gets periodically wheeled out: the pledges to ease the burden on the “just about managing”; the promises to fight⟳ the “burning injustices” of social inequality. But then a few weeks later, the chancellor gets up at the dispatch box to deliver⟳ a budget or an autumn statement and it’s as if those words had never been uttered.”

“And for the EU a Johnson premiership would mean⟳ “a mini-Trump across the Channel, dedicated to its sabotage”. Britain would become⟳ “a hostile principality, built on social, fiscal and environmental deregulation.””

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