examinership

/ ɪɡˈzæmɪnəˌʃɪp /

noun

1. the office or function of an examiner

2. the condition of being administered by an examiner

Example Sentences

The examinership - akin to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process in the United States and administration in Britain - was the largest in Irish corporate history and saw nearly all of the company's junior debt wiped out.

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Unlike administration, known as examinership in Ireland, receivership is not aimed at keeping the company operating as a going concern.

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Figures FGS compiled for the year show that just over 1,700 firms were forced into receivership, liquidation or examinership by creditors and the courts.

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Here he remained some months, lecturing and translating Plutarch for the book-sellers, until in 1853 the offer of an examinership in the Education Office brought him to London once more.

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When he retired from the examinership at London, students lost some of their old veneration for him, and when he married a second time, a Miss Barbara Something, they even ventured to make a logical joke on him, and say that he had been fascinated by Barbara's perfect figure.

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