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doctorship

American  
[dahk-ter-ship] / ˈdɑk tərˌʃɪp /

noun

doctorships plural
  1. the academic degree of doctor or the fact of holding such a degree, whether in medicine or in another field.

  2. the position or role of a medical doctor.


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Thank you to the head of Comcast, Ted Harbert, thank you to the powers that be that took his reruns down, his Disney statue in Orlando, they stripped him of his doctorship at Temple University.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2015

The captain adds the doctorship to his own duties.

From Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion by Twain, Mark

Bayle was not aware that Locke had been denied in 1666 his doctorship by the hostile Oxford authorities.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles

No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,—not though it be of the Garter,—confers so fair an honour.

From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony

Well, how far have you travelled in doctorship?

From The Peace Egg and Other tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

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