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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
directorship
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
take
▪ Ashton took over the directorship and maintained the pace.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Sales increased by 25% under Danoff's directorship.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a challenge the chief of the Poltava guberniia Department of Education offered him the directorship of this residential school for war-orphans.
▪ Ashton took over the directorship and maintained the pace.
▪ Chiesa said he had then been rewarded with the directorship of the Pio Albergo Trivulzio old people's home.
▪ Having met him, Miles made him an offer, a directorship of the company, and Indica to move in.
▪ He noted that the son of a senior Conservative aristocrat had walked into a directorship without previous training or experience.
▪ He was proud of his directorship, excellent salary, and good benefits.
▪ Nineteen former Tory Cabinet members enjoy 59 directorships between them.
▪ The directorship, for which he had struggled for years, represented to her only a house in Vanier Heights.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Directorship

Directorship \Di*rect"or*ship\, n. The condition or office of a director; directorate.

Wiktionary
directorship

n. The office of a director; a directorate

WordNet
directorship

n. the position of a director of a business concern

Usage examples of "directorship".

Rome, and held his first musical position as director at Assisi, but presently obtained the directorship at the Church of St.

Two years later he was invited to assume the assistant directorship of the private orchestra and choir of Prince Esterhazy, who lived in magnificent style, and for many years had maintained a private musical chapel.

Opposition to his tyranny culminated in 1842 by his dismission from the directorship, Meyerbeer being his successor.

An in-law you cannot stand, a chit of a girl sitting in a directorship, or Edward?

While in reality she had never even been able to wrangle the directorship of the Hempnell Student Players and had had to content herself with a minor position in the Speech Department.

His incomings, small as they were, from a couple of directorships and the rental of a property, went straight into some fund or trust, and a living allowance was paid out each month.

He could hardly fail to see that this campaign was the price he had to pay for the company directorships she was offering.

And in exchange for which you got two lucrative directorships of companies controlled by my husband, Augusta thought.

She was followed by eight more Directors and another Directrix before Vestolian ascended to the Directorship in 6319.

Before Gayler, the NSA directorship was generally acknowledged to be a final resting place, a dead-end job from which there was no return.

StarControl to hand down the Directorship while one is still alive, in order that the fleets may never be without an active leader.

That meant Justine herself only just scraped in, due to her directorship of several companies that supplied equipment to Directorates that avoided the public view.

When Jinny took her regular annual leave from the directorship of Moonbase the commute became easier: merely from Savannah to Austin.

It was incredible, really, to have found two such diverse Talents during her directorship: one macro who would shift worlds and one whose skill was a micro-Talent, eroding language barriers.

For a long time I had regarded him as someone on a postgraduate fling, someone doing his stint of service to the Crown before leaving to start his real career, someone who would eventually wind up with a dozen undemanding directorships and a Rolls-Royce with a personalized licence plate.