suffix [in nouns]
[Language: Old English;Origin: -scipe]
a) a particular position or job, or the time during which you have it
　He was offered a professorship (=the job of professor) .
　in Mr Major's premiership (=when he was prime minister)
　her application for British citizenship
the state of having something
　Private car ownership has almost doubled in the past 10 years.
　Their friendship developed soon afterwards.
a particular art or skill
　his superb musicianship
　a work of great scholarship
→-manship
all the people in a particular group
　a magazine with a readership of 9000 (=with 9000 readers)