generalships

Noun

generalship (plural generalships)

1. The position or office of a general.

   Synonyms:

   generalcy

2. The term of office of a military general.
   • George Washington's generalship was marked by both amazing victories and stunning blunders, neither of which would have happened to someone with more formal officer training.
3. The skills or performance of a good general; military leadership, strategy.
   • General Polk stated, with all respect to General Bragg’s great abilities in the direction of organization and discipline, that he had been wanting in the higher elements of generalship in the conduct of the campaign; […]1893, William M[ecklenburg] Polk, “The Kentucky Campaign”, in Leonidas Polk, Bishop and General, volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. and New York: […], page 158
4. By extension, leadership, good management.
   • Under my generalship my fine troop of brats picked up every scrap of litter in that lot.