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auteurship

auteurship noun: the role or status of auteur.

Noun

auteurship (uncountable)

  1. The role or status of auteur.
    • Mr. Ferrell and Mr. McKay are not involved in the writing of this latest venture — they are executive producers — but the mark of their auteurship is all over it, chiefly in the sweet, quaint life-lesson of an idea that if you go around acting like an entitled idiot, your entitled idiocy is going...2009 February 13, Ginia Bellafante, “A Pitcher’s Life After the Third Strike”, in New York Times

Origin of auteurship

From auteur + -ship.

Questions about auteurship

What does auteurship mean?
Auteurship means the role or status of auteur.
What part of speech is auteurship?
Auteurship is a noun.

Words near auteurship in the dictionary

  1. auteurism
  2. auteurist
  3. auteuristic
  4. auteurists
  5. auteurs
  6. auteurship
  7. autexousious
  8. auth
  9. auth.
  10. Auth. Ver.
  11. authalic

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