ministryshipn.
/ˈmɪnᵻstrɪʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈmɪnəstriˌʃɪp/ rare.
The position or office of minister of state.
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ministership1567
ministryship1730
portefeuille1756
portfolio1781
1730 Let. 15 Oct. in J. Swift Lett. (1768) IV. 249 I suppose it is not yet in your view to entail the ministryship in your family.
2001 Times of India (Nexis) 5 Mar. In fact, I had climbed down from my original demand of asking her to sacrifice her ministryship and ally with us.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1730- to come as standard
- to come at
- to come away
- to come back
- to come back to reality
- to come bad, or no, speed
- to come be given with the rations
- to come be under, within, beyond, out of the cognizance
- to come behind
- to come between
- to come by
- to come by the ears
- to come by the lame post
- to come clean
- to come daud
- to come down
- to come down a banker
- to come down a peg
- to come down a person like a ton of bricks
- to come down gulch
- to come down in the world
- to come down like a ton of bricks
- to come down on a person like a ton of bricks
- to come down on like a hundred of brick
- to come down on like a hundred of bricks