cadetshipn.
1. The status of a younger son.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > son > [noun] > condition of younger son
cadetship1831
1831 B. Disraeli Young Duke II. iii. v. 60 The ambitious prospects with which he had..consoled himself for his cadetship.
2. The position or status of a military or naval cadet; the commission given to a cadet.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > student cadet > position of
cadetship1844
1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 108 For the artillery and engineers, it is a condition of the presentation of a cadetship that the candidate should have gone through a regular course of instruction at Addiscombe.
1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 76 667 The age of entering on their cadetship.
1884 Harper's Mag. May 866/1 Candidates for cadetship in the Royal Navy.
3. New Zealand. The position or status of a young man learning sheep-farming on a sheep-station.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-farmer > learner > position of
cadetship1842
1842 R. G. Jameson N.Z., S. Aust. & New S. Wales xxiv. 337 Colonial cadetships.
1853 J. Rochfort Adventures Surveyor ii. 20 They had just finished their ‘cadetship’, that is, they had been learning sheep-farming under a settler.
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