leaderships
USLEE-dur-ships/ˈlidɚʃɪps/UKLEE-duh-ships/ˈliːdəʃɪps/
- 1Plural of leadership.
The leaderships of the rival unions opened talks after months of silence.
Successive leaderships had failed to close the funding gap.
Note
A plural that counts groups rather than qualities: it most naturally means several bodies of leaders, such as the leaderships of rival parties meeting, or one leadership succeeding another over time. It can also count offices held. When the meaning is the capacity to lead, English usually keeps the singular, so you would say a test of leadership, not of leaderships. The plural rarely describes skill.
leaderships is a form of leadership
leadership, noun: The action of leading and directing others, or the ability to do this well. Full entry
- Forms
- leadershipleaderships plural
- Spelling
- leadership → leaderships: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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