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rivalships

rivalships is the plural of rivalship.

Meaning of rivalship

Noun (1)

rivalship (countable and uncountable, plural rivalships)

  1. (archaic) Rivalry.
    • Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, page 759

Noun (2)

rivalship (plural rivalships)

  1. (slang) A ship involving characters with an adversarial relationship.
    • it took me longer to ship drarry bc when i first read HP i was young and pure and didnt care about ships but now im rivalship trash so2015 October 16, kat (@saItkath), Twitter
    Synonyms:
    hateship

Questions about rivalships

What is rivalships the plural of?
Rivalships is the plural of rivalship.

Words near rivalships in the dictionary

  1. rivalrously
  2. rivalrousness
  3. rivalry
  4. rivals
  5. rivalship
  6. rivalships
  7. rivalsome
  8. Rivard
  9. Rivards
  10. rivaria
  11. rivarium

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