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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

Ah! goodness, all is lost! well, here's a pretty upset for my doctorship!

From The Flying Doctor (Le Médecin Volant) by Charles Heron Wall

Not one came, moreover, without her little pipkin of pennyroyal, sage, balm, or other herb-tea, delighted at an opportunity of signalizing her kindness and her doctorship.

From Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving

The captain adds the doctorship to his own duties.

From Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion by Mark Twain

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 Charles Bastide

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