Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The position and duties of a monitor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The post or office of a monitor.

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  • noun The status of serving as a monitor

Etymologies

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monitor +‎ -ship

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Examples

  • The monitorship was the result of a so-called deferred prosecution agreement made by then-U. S.

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  • Warin previously had an FCPA monitorship stint at Statoil

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  • Warin previously had an FCPA monitorship stint at Statoil

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  • Warin previously had an FCPA monitorship stint at Statoil

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  • "This hearing cost far more in tax dollars than my monitorship will cost, because it did not cost taxpayers one thin dime," said Mr. Ashcroft.

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  • When this comes out all his training with the Coon must come out too; perhaps he'll lose his monitorship for not keeping his hand on me, and Phil's done him a bad enough turn already.

    Acton's Feud A Public School Story Frederick Swainson

  • And to allow voluntarily some other pupil to fill the inkwells, distribute pencils, scratch pads, and drawing paper at their appointed intervals, and to indulge in a hundred and one other little acts of monitorship is no slight sacrifice for a boy to make.

    A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Herman Gastrell Seely

  • This frieze was almost invariably composed of Estelle Foote, a successful rival in a class candidacy for the sponge-and-basin monitorship; Sydney Prothero, infallible of spitball aim; Miss Lare with her spectacles very low on her nose and a powdering of chalk dust down her black alpaca; Flora Kemble with infinitely fewer friendship bangles on her silver link bracelet; Roy Kemble, kissing her yellow, rather than yanking her brown, braids.

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

  • He was now in his second year of monitorship at the school where his

    The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927

  • When John MacDermott was seventeen years of age and entering into his fourth year of monitorship, his Uncle William said to him, "John, boy, you're getting on to be a man now, and it's high time you began to think of what you're going to do with yourself when you are one!"

    The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927

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