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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
headship
noun
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▪ At the time of the election to the Coulson Professorship, the headship will have been filled.
▪ Barth believes that the scriptures from Genesis forward imply the headship of man and the subordination of woman.
▪ But the report said few secondary schools advertised at less than £60,000, and primary headships had broken through the £50,000 barrier.
▪ Heads' realization of the headship role tended to fall into four main types.
▪ The number of deputy headship vacancies also rose, from 2,132 to 2,417.
▪ The problem of wife abuse is not one of feminism, secular humanism or a lack of headship in the home.
▪ These, as he entered the headship, were coming together as a mixed voluntary-aided comprehensive high school.
▪ This is obviously where the lack of leadership skills and abuse of headship most frequently surfaces.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Headship

Headship \Head"ship\, n. Authority or dignity; chief place.

Wiktionary
headship

n. 1 The position of a head or chief 2 (context British English) The position of a headmaster or headmistress 3 (context archaic English) authority or dignity

WordNet
headship

  1. n. the position of headmaster or headmistress

  2. the position of head

Usage examples of "headship".

The last sentence may be interpreted by the notice of Suidas, who informs us that Apollonius was a contemporary of Eratosthenes, Euphorion and Timarchus, in the time of Ptolemy Euergetes, and that he succeeded Eratosthenes in the headship of the Alexandrian Library.

Wami, the wife of Moa, she who had been the foster mother of Kwa and who shared with Moa the headship of the Furry Tribe.

The legal headship of the Faith had been vested since 750 in the Caliphs of Baghdad, who represented orthodox Islam.

It followed her to the Sabbath-day catechisings, where she repeated the answers about the federal headship of Adam, and her consequent personal responsibilities, and other technicalities which are hardly milk for babes, perhaps as well as other children, but without any very profound remorse for what she could not help, so far as she understood the matter, any more than her sex or stature, and with no very clear comprehension of the phrases which the New England followers of the Westminster divines made a part of the elementary instruction of young people.