governorship
/ˈɡʌv(ə)nəʃɪp
/noun
1The office or position of being governor of a town, region, or public institution: the governorship of the bank...
- The chairman of the party's financial committee always held the governorship of the Central Bank.
- The aluminium magnate won the governorship of the autonomous region, just across the Bering Straits from Alaska, in 2000.
- He continued the governorship of the Company, his authority never challenged by subordinates or the Committee in London.
1.1The office or position of being the elected executive head of a state of the US: his campaign for the governorship of California...
- Two years later, at thirty-two, he won the Arkansas governorship.
- By the early 1990s, the Texas governorship was again in the hands of a Democrat.
- Almost immediately after winning the governorship, he had begun to maneuver for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
1.2The office or position of being the representative of the British Crown in a colony or in a Commonwealth state that regards the monarch as head of state: the governorship of Bermuda was traditionally one of the most prestigious posts...
- Like his predecessor, he was a distinguished soldier without civil experience rewarded with a colonial governorship.
- On June 30, 1629, Henry Hawley arrived on the island and assumed the governorship.
- With the arrival of Captain Morgan on the barque Duke of York on 27 July 1836 at Kingscote, Wallen's governorship came to an end.