Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The office of examiner: as, the chief examinership of the civil-service commission.

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

  • noun The office or rank of an examiner.

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  • noun Ireland, law a legal process a company gets protection from the Court, in order to survive.

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Examples

  • Last year, nearly two dozen people lost their € 20,000 deposit after Laragan Developments — the property firm behind Carrickmines Green — went into examinership.

    Hardy Irish Souls Tiptoe Quentin Fottrell 2010

  • Flower, then Curator of the Royal College of Surgeons 'Museum, refers to this trip and to his appointment to the examinership in physiology at the College of Surgeons, for which he had applied in May and which he held until 1870.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • Flower, then Curator of the Royal College of Surgeons 'Museum, refers to this trip and to his appointment to the examinership in physiology at the College of

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Fastnet Line, which is owned by the West Cork Tourism Cooperative Society, is currently in examinership in the Irish Republic - a legal status which provides protection for a maximum for 100 days against any creditors seeking to wind-up a business as they seek to restructure.

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011

  • Linen Supply of Ireland says 350 jobs have been saved at the company after a High Court decision cleared the way for it to emerge from examinership on March 3.

    RTÉ News 2010

  • Linen Supply of Ireland says 350 jobs have been saved at the company after a High Court decision cleared the way for it to emerge from examinership on March 3.

    RTÉ News 2010

  • Anglo has indicated it does not intend to support Black Shore's petition to be placed in examinership, according to the Irish Times.

    RTÉ News 2010

  • Under examinership, two of LSI's Dublin plants closed with the loss of 200 jobs while a plant in Rahoon in Galway was also shut.

    RTÉ News 2010

  • O'Briens Sandwich Bars, Budget Travel, EP Mooney, Sasha, Chartbusters and others have all gone through some form of liquidation, receivership or examinership.

    RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds 2010

  • Under examinership, two of LSI's Dublin plants closed with the loss of 200 jobs while a plant in Rahoon in Galway was also shut.

    RTÉ News 2010

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