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Meaning of premiership in English

premiership
noun [ C or U ]
uk
/ˈprem.i.eə.ʃɪp/ us
/prɪˈmɪr.ʃɪp/

premiership noun [C or U] (POLITICS)

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the period when someone is prime minister, or the job of being prime minister
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premiership noun [C or U] (SPORT)

(also Premiership)
the top football league (= group of competing teams) in England, consisting of 20 teams from England and Wales :
The win put Arsenal back at the top of the Premiership.
a premiership player
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the Premier League
(also Premiership)
the highest level competition for rugby union in England:
Premiership rugby
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the Premiership
noun [ S ]
uk
/ˈprem.i.ə.ʃɪp/ us
/prɪˈmɪr.ʃɪp/
the group of the best English football teams who compete against each other in a league; a similar league of the best English rugby teams
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(Definition of premiership from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of premiership

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In shepherding its preferred candidates into premierships, the national party involved itself in protracted negotiations with local and regional elements of the party.
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Other students of her premiership might well want to add to the list.
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A second is that even though the coalition is sustained, another coalition party successfully claims the premiership.
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A key component of this bargaining process is the distribution of state o-ces, especially senior positions and the premiership.
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It was a vain attempt, perhaps, to prolong her doomed premiership.
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He can also ignore his predecessor who is still writhing with the phantoms that haunted her during her premiership.
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We must avoid the drawbridge being pulled up by the premiership, especially when club directors see the money that is available.
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Every other institution is being modernised, but we need to modernise the premiership.
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When unemployment rose in the mid-term of his premiership, he reversed policies and tried to cope with a rising crisis.
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One wonders whether she might travel by train for the first time in her premiership and perhaps even meet some ordinary people.
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She negotiated a temporary refund on a year-by-year basis for the first three years of her premiership.
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Again we heard claims that, over the past four years, under the present premiership, things have improved.
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At an early stage in his premiership, he has forgotten the basic rule—when one is in a hole, stop digging and start climbing.
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We do not apologise for that, as the average premiership club shop can take £1 million in a season.
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He was persuaded to step down from the premiership.
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Translations of premiership

in Chinese (Traditional)
總理任期（或職位）, 首相任期（或職位）, 英格蘭足球超級聯賽…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
总理任期（或职位）, 首相任期（或职位）, 英格兰足球超级联赛…
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in Spanish
mandato de primer ministro, puesto de primer ministro, primera división de fútbol de Inglaterra…
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in Portuguese
mandato de primeiro-ministro/primeira-ministra, cargo de primeiro-ministro/primeira-ministra, a Primeira Liga Inglesa…
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