governorship

Converse of object

• hold: Despite Wyoming's clear preference for Republicans in national offices, Democrats have held the governorship for all but eight years since 1975.
• win: Four years later, running on a platform of maximum resistance to federal attempts to end segregation in Alabama, Wallace won the governorship.
• resign: She left Northern Ireland soon afterward and within a very short time Lord Erskine resigned the governorship and returned to his native Scotland.
• take: While Morales won the national election in December, they fortified their own position by taking key provisional governorships.
• lose: Until 1989 its candidates never lost a governorship of one of Mexico's 31 states.
• offer: On one occasion he was offered the governorship of Fez, but he refused.

Adjective modifier

• provincial: The impotent Sulayman is forced to hand out provincial governorships to the Berber chiefs.
• military: Freedmen could also register as soldiers in their own right rose to military governorships and commands.

Noun used with modifier

• school: The university places adverts on staff web pages and magazines and actively promotes school governorship as a way of strengthening links with the community.