Crossword clues for premiership
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Premiership \Pre"mi*er*ship\, n. The office of the premier.
Wiktionary
n. The office of a premier or prime minister.
WordNet
n. the office of premier
Wikipedia
Premiership (the state of being the Premier(s)) may refer to:
- The post of Prime Minister or Premier, who is the head of government in many parliamentary systems
- Premier League, England's highest-level football league competition
- Scottish Premiership, Scotland's highest level football league competition
- Welsh Premier League, Wales' highest level football league competition
- NIFL Premiership, the highest-level football league competition in Northern Ireland
- Aviva Premiership, England's highest-level rugby union competition
- NRL Premiership, Australasia's highest level rugby league competition
- AFL Grand Final, in Australian rules football a title won during a particular year
- The Rugby League Premiership, a title that was available to English rugby league clubs from 1974 to 1997
- Welsh Premier Division, known for sponsorship reasons as the Principality Premiership, Wales' highest-level domestic rugby union league competition (but secondary to the multinational Pro12)
- Premier Soccer Saturday, RTÉ
- The Mitre 10 Premiership, the top-tier competition within the Mitre 10 Cup in New Zealand rugby union
- The Premiership, ITV's flagship football programme from 2001-2004
- Media coverage of the English Premiership
- In the A-League of Australian soccer, the "premiership" is won by the team finishing first on the league table after the regular season.
Usage examples of "premiership".
Canning to the premiership, he received from the duke an uncompromising, bitter, and ungenerous opposition.
In the fourth month of his premiership he died at his post, leaving to posterity a great name, and an eternal reproach against his unprincipled persecutors.
Throughout the political transactions of his premiership his grace showed much passion, and a tyranny to his colleagues in office more suitable to the barrack-room than the cabinet.
The secession of those men from the cabinet, to whom our military disasters were mainly attributable, was a gain to its moral influence, and saved the premiership of Lord Palmerston from an extinction, probably, as signal as that of his predecessor.
Succeeding to the premiership Asquith remodeled the Cabinet more nearly in his own image.
Together with Millerand, who now called himself an Independent Socialist, they held a succession of offices from now on, with Briand reaching the premiership within three years and Viviani five years later.
Regard for rank and riches propelled the Marquess of Rockingham and the Duke of Grafton to the premiership and the Duke of Richmond to office as Secretary of State in the 1760s.
Needed for his talent, he was never to be long out of office and, despite mistrust, was to reach the premiership in 1782 in time to negotiate the treaty confirming American independence.
The Duke offered the premiership to Pitt, who obstinately refused for reasons not easily discerned in this complex and opaque character.
If Churchill should go, Cripps and Bevin are tipped as the likeliest men for the premiership, with Bevin evidently favourite.
Thus we people prefer to save the whale, or the rainforest, or the poor and starving, or the football premiership title.
Seward was deposed, not from the cabinet, but from the premiership of the cabinet.
Nor would I be offended at being told that Lord Derby was appointed to the premiership, while in truth the Queen had only sent to his lordship, having as yet come to no definite arrangement.
Its commander in chief had risen to the premiership on the strength of his performance, and its veterans still gathered in meeting places around the world.
How many men of political genius appeared in the Premiership during these centuries?