premiership

noun

1. The office of a premier or prime minister.

   “There is a familiar pattern that has come to define Theresa May’s premiership. Encouraging rhetoric gets periodically wheeled out: the pledges to ease the burden on the “just about managing”; the promises to fight the “burning injustices” of social inequality. But then a few weeks later, the chancellor gets up at the dispatch box to deliver a budget or an autumn statement and it’s as if those words had never been uttered.”

   “And for the EU a Johnson premiership would mean “a mini-Trump across the Channel, dedicated to its sabotage”. Britain would become “a hostile principality, built on social, fiscal and environmental deregulation.””

2. (Australia)The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).

name

1. (British)The Premier League of English association football.
2. (British)Premiership Rugby, the top division of English rugby union.