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Answer for the clue "The position of a curate ", 6 letters:
curacy

Word definitions for curacy in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curacy \Cu"ra*cy\ (k?"r?-s?), n.; pl. Curacies (-s?z). [See Cure , Curate .] The office or employment of a curate.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The office or position of a curate

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the position of a curate

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For the last weeks of his curacy he left the lodgings and hired a room in a small hotel up Mount Pleasant. ▪ He and his wife had offered us accommodation with them from the time my curacy finished until after the expedition. ...

Usage examples of curacy.

He had obtained a living at an age when other young clergymen are beginning to think of a curacy, and he had obtained such a living as middle-aged parsons in their dreams regard as a possible Paradise for their old years.