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principalship

  • a word derived from principal.
    principal
    adjective
    first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.

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To have him tap me just got me seriously thinking about the principalship.

From Seattle Times May 31, 2023

This person’s résumé included a previous assistant principalship, as well as over a decade of other K-12 educational experience.

From Washington Post Nov. 10, 2022

Superintendent Danny Merck said in a statement that Anderson-Murray has done a good job taking up the principalship in the middle of the year and during a pandemic.

From Washington Times Mar. 29, 2021

“I am confident that the candidates for this principalship will be able to build on the work we have achieved together,” she wrote.

From Washington Post May 3, 2017

Our own district superintendent confided that the principalship of North High would be opening up in a couple of years, and the job was mine for the asking.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman