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researchship

Syllables: re·search·ship/ɹɪˈsɜːt͡ʃˌʃɪp//ˈɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃˌʃɪp/

researchship noun: a paid position doing research, typically for a university or non-profit organization. Also the alternative form of research ship.

Noun

researchship (countable and uncountable, plural researchships)

  1. (countable) A paid position doing research, typically for a university or non-profit organization.
    • I think, personally, that the greatest inducement to keep people in the field would be to set up a life researchship, very much like the judiciary is in this country, setting a minimal age at, perhaps, 35, and selecting, even if it is only a few individuals, people who have demonstrated their...1958 February 26, Nathan S[chellenberg] Kline, witness, “Mental Health Research: Statement of Dr. Nathan S. Kline”, in Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1959...
    • Each year the Cultural Learning Institute offers a limited number of senior fellowships and visiting researchships to advanced scholars who come to the Center to conduct research and develop programs within the four project areas of the Institute.1977 spring, “Facts on Funding”, in Terry Dufrane Scully, editor, International Educational and Cultural Exchange, volume XII, number 4, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Advisory Commission on International...
  2. (uncountable) The practice or quality of conducting research.
    • He has strongly urged […] that reserved posts should be properly grouped into the following four categories:— (1) Heads of Divisions, i.e., those entrusted with researchship and research organisation; […]1947 May 3, Srinivasa Varadachariar [i.e., Srinivas Varadachariar], chairman, [et al.], “Agriculture Department”, in Report of the Central Pay Commission, Delhi: Manager of Publications, →OCLC, part...
    • In addition, government sponsorship of educational researchship has resulted in an expansion of the actual number of educational researchers.1980, Joel Spring, “The Production of Knowledge and the Control of Education”, in Educating the Worker-citizen: The Social, Economic, and Political Foundations of Education, New York, N.Y.; London...

Also used as

researchship is also the alternative form of research ship.

Examples of researchship in a sentence

  • During the researchship, considerable time was spent both in the R&D [research and development] laboratory and field where various construction robots were being developed and extensively used.1987 July 29 (date written), Peter J. Sherman, “[Appendix A] Construction R&D Pays Off! A Technical Report”, in Research and...
  • However, where enrolment is timed with scholarship or funding applications, or where the Ph.D. is offered as part of a research council researchship, deadlines may well exist.2009, Jane Matthiesen, Mario Binder, “Getting Started”, in How To Survive Your Doctorate: What Others Don’t Tell You (Open UP Study...
  • The visiting researchship there helped me prepare for fieldwork in East Central Europe.2010, Monika Nalepa, “Acknowledgements”, in Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe, Cambridge...
  • [Eric] Hobsbawm earned his degree in 1939 and accepted a student researchship to study agrarian problems in French North Africa.2015, Stephanie Koscak, “Hobsbawm, Eric John Ernest (1917–2012)”, in Kenneth E. Hendrickson III, editor, The Encyclopedia of the Industrial...

Forms of researchship

pluralresearchships

Origin of researchship

From research + -ship (suffix denoting a property or state of being).

See research ship.

Words that rhyme with researchship

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Questions about researchship

What does researchship mean?
Researchship means a paid position doing research, typically for a university or non-profit organization.
How do you use researchship in a sentence?
During the researchship, considerable time was spent both in the R&D [research and development] laboratory and field where various construction robots were being developed and extensively used.
What part of speech is researchship?
Researchship is a noun.
How do you pronounce researchship?
Researchship is pronounced /ɹɪˈsɜːt͡ʃˌʃɪp/ (UK).
What is the plural of researchship?
The plural of researchship is researchships.

Words near researchship in the dictionary

  1. researchful
  2. researching
  3. researchings
  4. researchist
  5. researchists
  6. researchship
  7. researchships
  8. researchy
  9. reseason
  10. reseasoned
  11. reseasoning

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