premiership
IPA: prɛmˈɪrʃɪp
Root Word: Premiership
noun
- (Britain, soccer) the Premier League of English association football
- (Britain, rugby) Premiership Rugby, the top division of English rugby union
- The office of a premier or prime minister.
- (Australia, sporting) The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
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Examples of "premiership" in Sentences
- Gordon Brown's premiership is dissected, Moyles gets mad and Melvyn Bragg is left puzzled
- "Because I don't believe in that ... it's nice to talk about these things, and use it as a fluffy word - but to say the word premiership, you've got to give it the respect it deserves."
- On February 26 the court will decide whether Thaksin concealed his ongoing ownership in his vast multi-billion dollar business empire during his two-term premiership between 2001 to 2006 and whether he used his power to enrich that empire.
- Thaksin, a former billionaire tycoon, put in place populist policies during his two-term premiership between 2001 and 2006 that won the hearts of the rural and urban poor and gave them a sense of political entitlement they now miss and want to regain.
- On February 26, Thailand's Supreme Court for Political Office Holders found Thaksin guilty of concealing his wealth from public scrutiny during his two-term premiership from 2001 to 2006 and of abusing his power to benefit his family's business empire.
- Mr. Kan had said repeatedly he has no intention of stepping down, most recently on Friday when he called his premiership in the time of crisis "fateful" and said it was his "utmost desire as a politician to lead Japan's rebuilding and economic recovery."
- Thaksin's populist policies during his two-term premiership between 2001 to 2006 won him a huge following among Thailand's rural and urban poor, but his dictatorial tendances and graft turned the Bangkok-based middle class and political elite against him.
- The dissolution of the PPP put an end to the previous government, leading to the rise of a new government under Abhisit and his Democrat Party, who were in the opposition against Thaksin's two-term premiership between 2001 to 2006 and the pro-Thaksin PPP-led government of
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