keepership

English

Etymology

From keeper +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkiːpəʃɪp/

Noun

keepership (plural keeperships)

1. The position of a keeper; guardianship, ownership.
   • 1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, “Charles Dickens”, in What I Remember […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son […], →OCLC, page 123:

     I wish he [Austen Henry Layard] had had the keepership of the National Gallery, for I don't think his Government will hold together through many weeks.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 269:

     Camby was given the keepership of one of the two Counter prisons, in Poultry Yard off Cheapside, traditionally run by London's sheriffs, where many convicted of offences in the city courts were held […]