Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or employment of a writer in some official capacity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of a writer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The position or office of a
writer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm for encouraging the most diverse writership and publication so everyone gets a chance to be read and so that readers have full choices.
The great ball of China Peter Rozovsky 2010
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Interesting article, Rob, which addresses a fundamental problem of Internet freelance writership: websites cost money and little is left over to pay authors.
How Website Owners Can Share the Wealth with Currently Unpaid Writers 2007
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Interesting article, Rob, which addresses a fundamental problem of Internet freelance writership: websites cost money and little is left over to pay authors.
How Website Owners Can Share the Wealth with Currently Unpaid Writers 2007
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Now it's true that DailyKos has a huge readership -- bigger than any other political blog today, by a factor of four probably -- but it also has a huge writership of some 90,000 registered members.
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Being offered a writership, he scouted the idea of a civil appointment, and would be contented with nothing but a uniform.
The Newcomes 2006
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Writer to the Signet, in Edinburgh, who had procured his son a writership in return for electioneering services done to an East
The Newcomes 2006
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This state of doubt in which I was plunged was not due, as I flattered myself for a time by supposing, to a sentiment which a man of fashion would not have felt and which, consequently, a writer, even if he belonged apart from his writership to the fashionable caste, ought to reproduce in order to be thoroughly ‘objective’ and to depict each class differently.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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Some of us talk to ourselves, others talk to a much larger audience, but there is a stream of comments, cross-references and opinions which indicate readership - but readership coupled with writership.
thinking with my fingers Torill 2002
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"Well, I had thought of a writership in the East India Company's service, or better still, a cadetship in the Company's forces."
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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His father not being at all wealthy, Clive accepted a writership in the East India Company and went out to Madras, but soon changed his post for a commission in the army.
What to See in England Gordon Home 1923
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