chairmanship

noun

Definition of chairmanshipnext
as in presidency

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Recent Examples of chairmanship That is the inheritance now facing Warsh, who has openly cast Greenspan as a model for his own chairmanship. — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 23 June 2026 Let my trusty spreadsheet walk you through how local real estate was whipsawed over Powell’s eight years — splitting his chairmanship into the first four years against the last four. — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 28 May 2026 Higher inflation adds to conviction on the Street that Warsh will be unable to cut rates anytime soon, as he's championed prior to succeeding the chairmanship. — Sarah Min, CNBC, 12 June 2026 Murley, a member of the Lake Forest College board since 2019, assumed the chairmanship on June 1. — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026 In the aftermath of 2020, Jones was stripped of a committee chairmanship and frozen out of Senate GOP leadership. — Shannon McCaffrey, AJC.com, 10 June 2026 The Washington state Democrat is now the ranking member on Armed Services and a likely candidate to reclaim the chairmanship should his party retake the House. — Nik Popli, Time, 8 June 2026 Quinn also made the decision to go play piano in New York at the end of last season after a steamy back and forth with Staten, whose father (Brett Cullen) challenged him for chairmanship of the Double K Ranch. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 June 2026 Those are some of the extraordinary events that unfolded during the eight-year chairmanship of Jerome Powell at the Federal Reserve, an institution tasked with managing the economy to achieve maximum employment and stable prices. — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chairmanship
  1. presidency
  2. deanship
  3. governorship
  4. kingship
  5. superintendency
  6. dictatorship
  7. premiership
  8. generalship
Noun
  • His use of the presidency’s sweeping ability to unilaterally grant pardons and commute sentences is among the ways the Republican’s return to office has featured an expansive use of executive power.
    — Michelle L. Price, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • The disaster is becoming the defining challenge of Rodríguez’s interim presidency.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
Definition of presidency
Noun
  • An additional $5 million will fund a deanship, $3 million will support a chair in biomedical engineering, and $5 million will establish a research fund for faculty fellowships, emphasizing cross-disciplinary collaboration.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Definition of deanship
Noun
  • Housing and affordability Each candidate describes housing affordability as a key hurdle for the next governor — and touts his proposal as a marquee policy for his governorship.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 25 June 2026
  • Modern leaders Ever since the anti-immigrant 1990s governorship of the Protestant Pete Wilson, our governors, all Catholic, have defended immigrants.
    — Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
Definition of governorship
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  • York is told that Somerset is imprisoned in the Tower of London, but when this is disproved by Somerset’s entrance, York announces his claim to the kingship.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • In the ancient kingship tradition, endangering the empire would cause a king to lose his farr.
    — Azadeh Moaveni, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
Definition of kingship
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  • Carvalho’s later Form 700s — for the entire period of his superintendency — are nearly blank.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
  • The fallout In the aftermath of the UFT’s formal notice, a letter campaign was launched that asked Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels not to appoint Lynch-Reyes to the permanent superintendency.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2026
Definition of superintendency
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  • His story stretches beyond sports, touching one of Haiti’s many mysteries of Haiti’s brutal Duvalier dictatorship and reflecting on the outsize role Haitians have long played in shaping American history.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • Virtually all contemporary dictatorships are cosplay democracies with term limits, elections, and legislatures—the few ruling, as Amos Perlmutter put it, in the name of the many.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
Definition of dictatorship
Noun
  • However, he is not allowed to make new major policy announcements or spending commitments during what remains of his premiership.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • Yet meaningful change has been slow to materialize, souring views of Starmer’s premiership and inflicting heavy losses on the Labour Party in local government elections in May, which virtually sealed his fate.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
Definition of premiership
Noun
  • Suggs is listed as the team’s point guard, but because of his tendency for turnovers and general lack of floor generalship, the coaches have deployed him more as a 3-and-D player.
    — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • There’s talk that this could be EMRO’s turn to hold the director-generalship.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 14 Apr. 2026
Definition of generalship

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