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governorship

/guhv-er-ner-ship, -uh-ner-/US // ˈgʌv ər nərˌʃɪp, -ə nər- //UK // (ˈɡʌvənəˌʃɪp) //

州长职位,省长职位,州长职务,省长职务

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the duties, term in office, etc., of a governor.

Examples

  • This isn’t a first-past-the-post contest in which the governorship is suddenly thrown wide open.

  • California businessman John Cox, who has challenged Newsom previously for the governorship launched his Meet the Beast Bus Tour Tuesday morning at Miller Regional Park in Sacramento.

  • If Republicans can flip the six seats they need to take control of the chamber, they will break Democrats’ total control over Virginia state government even if Democrats win the governorship.

  • In past midterms, a sizable number of governorships have switched party hands, too, often with major political ramifications.

  • He increased the RNC’s budget from $19 million in 1977 to $45 million in 1980, enabling the once moribund party to win substantial victories in state legislatures, governorships and Congress.

  • Self-funding Democrat Tom Wolf is running a singular battle for the governorship of Pennsylvania.

  • During his governorship, Bush oversaw the construction of 38 prisons.

  • During her campaign for the governorship in 2000, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, now in remission.

  • Voters also swept Republicans into the governorship and control of the state legislature.

  • By 1976, after Arch Moore was exposed as what he was, Rockefeller won the governorship and served two terms.

  • Mayor Packard, your education as a politician has yet to be completed before you will be fit for the governorship of a state.

  • The Court of Proprietors voted by a large majority for his release and restoration to his governorship.

  • The seat of a governorship of low grade, like a kaimakamlik, is always a home of oppression in Turkey.

  • His tenure of the governorship of Urmi had been brief; but like the kingship of Roumania was always a pleasant reminiscence.

  • About 1840 he was offered the governorship of St. Lucia, but his love for his native island caused him to decline the offer.