Definition of "proconsulship" []

• The office or status of a proconsul; a proconsulate. (noun)

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• "Little more is heard from Agrippina over the next five years; an educated guess is that she may have accompanied her new husband to his proconsulship in Asia in 42.20"
• "What about “the inevitable follow-up: major occupation forces in Iraq for years to come and a very expensive and complex American proconsulship in Baghdad”?"
• "His argument against proceeding to Baghdad after liberating Kuwait was “the inevitable follow-up: major occupation forces in Iraq for years to come and a very expensive and complex American proconsulship in Baghdad”."