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dollarship

dollarship noun: monetary concerns; the power of money.

Noun

dollarship (uncountable)

  1. Monetary concerns; the power of money.
    • The Lord Norths of our day form steel trusts and sugar trusts and all other kinds of trusts, and then claim — not the divine right of kingship, but — the divine right of dollarship to rule the earth.1970, Wilshire's, volumes 2-4, page 36
    • The failure to proactively create and incentivize leadership programs that address this unique role makes it more likely that models appropriate to different organizational forms, more focused on “dollarship than scholarship,” will dominate.2017, Duncan Waite, Ira Bogotch, The Wiley International Handbook of Educational Leadership

Origin of dollarship

From dollar + -ship.

Questions about dollarship

What does dollarship mean?
Dollarship means monetary concerns; the power of money.
What part of speech is dollarship?
Dollarship is a noun.

Words near dollarship in the dictionary

  1. dollars of the daddies
  2. dollars out
  3. dollars to donuts
  4. dollars up
  5. dollars-and-cents
  6. dollarship
  7. dollarweed
  8. dollarwise
  9. dollarydoo
  10. dollarydoos
  11. dollas

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