[f. prec. + -SHIP.] The position or office of an administrator.

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1590.  Swinburn, Testaments, 251. Whether of them were to be admitted to the administratorship, in case the testator had died intestate.

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1865.  Carlyle, Fred. Gt., I. III. xii. 300. This first crisis, of getting into the Prussian Administratorship … our vigilant Kurfürst … has successfully managed.

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