[f. ENGINEER sb. + -SHIP.] a. The business, or occupation, of an engineer. b. The office, or position, of an engineer.
1649. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653), To Rdr. Their pretences of great abilities in Engineership.
1661. Earl Orrery, State Letters (1743), I. 62. I … pretend something to engineership.
1883. Nasmyth, Autobiog., xvi. 288. The railway had been constructed under the engineership of Major Whistler.
1889. Illust. Lond. News, 23 Feb., 242/3. Mr. Hawksley retired from the joint engineership.
