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leadership spills

leadership spills is the plural of leadership spill.

Meaning of leadership spill

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

Questions about leadership spills

What is leadership spills the plural of?
Leadership spills is the plural of leadership spill.

Words near leadership spills in the dictionary

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

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