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head·ship [ˈhedʃɪp] N

1. headship ADMIN:

headship (position of authority)
oberste Leitung
headship (period of post)
Amtszeit f als leitende Kraft

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He initiated the system of rotation of the headship of departments once in every three years.
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Under her headship, and with the help of family members, the school became a model for girls' education.
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He ultimately assumed the headship of the house.
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However, headship rights were extremely unstable because branch families often asserted their own independence, particularly as new generations emerged to dilute the ties of kinship.
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She left her career to take on the headship and continued in this role until her resignation, soon followed by her death in 1973.
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If a wife were childless the husband often kept a concubine, whose offspring succeeded to the headship of the family, thus securing its continuation.
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He rejected many college livings, and twice missed the college headship.
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It remained in the top 10 until the 1960s, and returned to form in the early 1970s, taking the headship again in 1973.
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The headship of the school passed to (15391613), whose relationship with his predecessors is uncertain.
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He succeeded family headship at age 4, and died at age 20.
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