| 释义 |
superˈvisorship
[f. prec. + -ship.]
The office of a supervisor. Also, contextually, the function of a supervisor; a body of supervisors.
1485Rolls of Parlt. VI. 349/1 Th' office of Supervisorship of oure Werkys. 1643Three Lett. 18 Did we ever think it possible both Houses should ever pretend to such a supervisorship over that trust? 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. cv, The abuses done to those Rivers, may well call for the Supervisorship of some particular Person or Persons. 1772Burke Let. to W. Dowdeswell 7 Nov., He offered me the first place in a supervisorship of three. 1783W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. II. 107 The supervisorship of fourteen grammar-schools. 1895Chamb. Jrnl. XII. 817/1 That January which, had the poet-exciseman lived, would have witnessed his promotion to a supervisorship. |