Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or dignity of a chancellor; the period during which a chancellor holds office.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The status of being a
chancellor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the office of chancellor
Etymologies
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Examples
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Next to the chancellorship is the embassy to Vienna, and an embassy to Paris is to be created.
The Puppet Crown Harold MacGrath 1901
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The simplest explanation for her campaign is probably the most accurate: the chancellorship was a job she wanted very, very much.
Chicago Reader 2010
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The chancellorship is the job Ed Balls has always wanted.
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The simplest explanation for her campaign is probably the most accurate: the chancellorship was a job she wanted very, very much.
Chicago Reader 2010
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This a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for our economic revival, and makes the "cheap money" policy during that earlier period of austerity under Hugh Dalton's Labour chancellorship of 1945-47 look like a vicarage tea party.
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The day before Walcott ascended to the chancellorship, a group of early childhood educators, agency leaders, college faculty, policymakers, and other stakeholders gathered at NYU for "Early Care and Education: Forging a Common Mission in New York State," a policy forum sponsored by the NYC Association for the Education of Young Children.
Susan Ochshorn: A New Chancellor With Kindergarten on His C.V. Susan Ochshorn 2011
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Among them: "The role Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp played in pushing Rhee for the chancellorship."
DeMorning DeBonis: Jan. 19, 2011 Mike DeBonis 2011
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The day before Walcott ascended to the chancellorship, a group of early childhood educators, agency leaders, college faculty, policymakers, and other stakeholders gathered at NYU for "Early Care and Education: Forging a Common Mission in New York State," a policy forum sponsored by the NYC Association for the Education of Young Children.
Susan Ochshorn: A New Chancellor With Kindergarten on His C.V. Susan Ochshorn 2011
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"I have a clear vision for how I, together with my colleagues, will lead the FDP out of this difficult situation," Mr. Rösler said Tuesday after his fellow FDP leaders endorsed plans to give him the economics ministry and the vice chancellorship.
Key German Party Shuffles Lineup Patrick McGroarty 2011
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During his chancellorship, Gordon Brown claimed countless times that he was putting an end to Tory boom-and-bust.
Ed Balls's 1970s Flashback Rupert Darwall 2011
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