† factoryshipn.2
Obsolete. rare.
The office or position of factor; factorship. Cf. factory n. 1a.
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society > occupation and work > position or job > [noun] > position or office of specific workers
plumbership1455
portership1521
clerkship1531
factorshipc1550
pavership1597
mastership1688
private secretaryship1789
writership1810
taskmastership1815
factoryship1836
engineership1839
foremanship1853
improvership1864
call boy1877
gaffership1895
producership1924
operatorship1934
society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one who acts for another > position of
factorshipc1550
factory1560
agentry1590
factoryship1836
1836 Fraser's Mag. 14 511 He who shot Sir Alexander Boswell is..duly fitted with a factoryship.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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