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-manships

-manships is the plural of -manship.

Meaning of -manship

Suffix

-manship (noun-forming suffix, usually uncountable, plural -manships)

  1. (usually) Expertise, involvement, or special status in an area.
    • Stephen Potter is best known for his gamesmanship theory, a cunning, psychological tactic used to best a competitor, on or off the field. His basic "-manship" principle was later incorporate to include many everyday events.1996, Steven H. Gale, Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese, page 874

Questions about -manships

What is -manships the plural of?
-manships is the plural of -manship.

Words near -manships in the dictionary

  1. -manes
  2. -mania
  3. -maniac
  4. -mans
  5. -manship
  6. -manships
  7. -mantadine
  8. -mantic
  9. -mar-
  10. -mas
  11. -mastia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -manships (page history and authors); -manship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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