[f. prec. + -SHIP.] The position or office of an administrator.
1590. Swinburn, Testaments, 251. Whether of them were to be admitted to the administratorship, in case the testator had died intestate.
1865. Carlyle, Fred. Gt., I. III. xii. 300. This first crisis, of getting into the Prussian Administratorship our vigilant Kurfürst has successfully managed.