[f. prec. + -SHIP.] The office or function of a committee (now in sense 2).

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1670.  Milton, Hist. Eng., II. Wks. (1851), 98. Trusted with Committeeships and other gainfull Offices.

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1812.  Examiner, 28 Dec., 831/1. A controversy respecting the committeeship of a lunatic.

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