Definition of "commissionership" [commissionership]

• The role or office of commissioner. (noun)

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• "I hope before my commissionership is over, we will have a World Cup."
• "Sir Paul Stephenson's commissionership was ended by the phone-hacking scandal, as was the career of former assistant commissioner John Yates."
• "TR had risen like a meteor through the New York City police commissionership, army service in the Spanish-American war in Cuba, and a couple of years as governor of New York."