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leadership spill

leadership spill noun: a declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant and open for re-election.

Noun

leadership spill (plural leadership spills)

  1. (Australian) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant and open for re-election.
    • Despite claims by the Snedden forces that the rebels had managed to muster no more than 14 votes for a leadership 'spill', the result in the secret ballot had in fact been very close.1976, Laurie Oakes, Crash Through Or Crash: The Unmaking of a Prime Minister, page 41

Forms of leadership spill

pluralleadership spills

Questions about leadership spill

What does leadership spill mean?
Leadership spill means a declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant and open for re-election.
What part of speech is leadership spill?
Leadership spill is a noun.
What is the plural of leadership spill?
The plural of leadership spill is leadership spills.

Words near leadership spill in the dictionary

  1. leaderman
  2. leadermen
  3. leaders
  4. leaders of the opposition
  5. leadership
  6. leadership spill
  7. leadership spills
  8. leaderships
  9. leades
  10. leadest
  11. leadeth

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