prime minister
noun
the principal minister and head of government in parliamentary systems; chief of the cabinet or ministry.
prime ministership
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a word derived from
prime minister.
prime-ministership
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a word derived from
prime minister.
prime ministernounthe principal minister and head of government in parliamentary systems; chief of the cabinet or ministry.
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The biggest mystery may be why Sonia, despite having the backing of her party and allies, declined the prime ministership and chose Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic liberalisation, instead.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Expect more twists and turns on future proposals as he receives feedback from politicians, voters and investors that he should have solicited sooner by developing a platform before he campaigned for the prime ministership.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Britain’s Liz Truss may limp on, but her prime ministership is finished, Tanya Gold writes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2022
Suga, 72, assumed the prime ministership after Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, resigned in August 2020 because of ill health.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
They foresaw a Laurier regime which for futility and brevity would take its place in history with the ill-starred prime ministership of Mackenzie.
From Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics by J. W. (John Wesley) Dafoe
Harold Macmillan twice won the prime-ministership by wider margins than his 1960 squeak into Oxford's chancellorship.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sheik Mujibur Rahman, Awami's 47-year-old leader, is the top prospect for the prime-ministership.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the prime-ministership, Eden inherited only a thin 19-seat majority from Sir Winston Churchill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Bandaranaike is contesting her late husband's old seat at Attana-galla, near Colombo, and while she may keep a place in Parliament, she may well lose her prime-ministership.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was at the request of the Queen that the Cardinal made the trusty Procureur Surintendant des Finances, the first position in France after the throne and the prime-ministership.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
