chancellorship

[chan-suh-ler-ship, -sler-, chahn-]

noun

1. the office or rank of chancellor.

2. a chancellor's term of office.

Other Word Forms

• underchancellorship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of chancellorship¹

First recorded in 1425–75, chancellorship is from the late Middle English word chanceler-schepp. See chancellor, -ship

Example Sentences

“With your chancellorship, you ensured that a woman at the head of government, that female power too, will forever be a matter of course in our country.”

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Mr Scholz's response to a shifting China may yet come to be the defining test of his chancellorship.

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Exports to China helped lift Germany out of mass unemployment in the early years of her chancellorship, and cushioned the blow of the financial crisis years later.

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Mr. Scholz’s most recent travails come on top of a rocky start to his chancellorship.

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Schröder might well have been, given the appearance of possible impropriety; the pipeline he was now being asked to head had been agreed to in the final weeks of his chancellorship, with his strong support.

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