0 the period when someone is prime minister, or the job of being prime minister
1 the top football league (= group of competing teams) in England, consisting of 20 teams from England and Wales :
2 the group of the best English football teams who compete against each other in a league; a similar league of the best English rugby teams
In shepherding its preferred candidates into premierships, the national party involved itself in protracted negotiations with local and regional elements of the party.
Other students of her premiership might well want to add to the list.
A second is that even though the coalition is sustained, another coalition party successfully claims the premiership.
A key component of this bargaining process is the distribution of state o-ces, especially senior positions and the premiership.
It was a vain attempt, perhaps, to prolong her doomed premiership.
He can also ignore his predecessor who is still writhing with the phantoms that haunted her during her premiership.
We must avoid the drawbridge being pulled up by the premiership, especially when club directors see the money that is available.
Every other institution is being modernised, but we need to modernise the premiership.
