chancellorship

American  

[chan-suh-ler-ship, -sler-, chahn-] / ˈtʃæn sə lərˌʃɪp, -slər-, ˈtʃɑn- /

noun

1. the office or rank of chancellor.

2. a chancellor's term of office.

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Other Word Forms

• underchancellorship noun

Etymology

Origin of chancellorship

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

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2022

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.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2022

Scholz, a former finance minister under Angela Merkel, brought little international security experience to the chancellorship when he succeeded her in December.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2022

Merkel, a conservative, has stayed out of the political spotlight since handing over Germany's chancellorship to Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat.

From Reuters • Jan. 19, 2022

On the other hand, Wood asserts in his history that no record of this chancellorship exists either in the University or the Episcopal archives.

From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, July 1865 by