headmastership

English

Etymology

headmaster +‎ -ship

Noun

headmastership (countable and uncountable, plural headmasterships)

The role or position of headmaster.
- 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 339:
  He knew where he lived, for he addressed a monthly pay cheque to him. He did not even know what disease he was suffering from. That was bad. Bad headmastership.

Synonyms

headship (UK)

Translations

the role or position of headmaster

Manx: ard-vainshtyrys m

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