What's the difference between ambassador and ambassadorship?
Ambassador
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Embassador
Example Sentences:
(1) Betfair says Dixon is one of a new set of "ambassadors" including rugby's Will Greenwood, racing's Paul Nicholls and cricket's Michael Vaughan.
(2) This is such an emotional thing in positive terms about the EU.” Marek Prawda, Poland’s former ambassador to the EU and now head of the European commission in Warsaw, says: “For us, being an EU member is the inverse of what was said in your referendum campaign about ‘taking back control’.
(3) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(4) Going forward, I am delighted to take on the roles of both director and ambassador for the club.
(5) He boasts that his time as America's ambassador to China shows more experience in vital foreign policy than any other candidate.
(6) In the WikiLeaks cables, the US ambassador in Berlin characterised the chancellor as "risk-averse and seldom creative".
(7) • In an emergency UN security council meeting, the US ambassador accused Russia of "looking for a pretext to invade" Ukraine.
(8) After two bodyguards of British ambassador Dominic Asquith were wounded in a rocket attack on the UK consulate, London closed its mission down.
(9) On Friday, the US ambassador to Libya, Deborah Jones, appealed for fighting near the embassy to stop.
(10) René Nyberg, a former ambassador to Russia, said Finland and the west were facing a new situation and it was uncertain where it might lead.
(11) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(12) "King Hamad understands that Bahrain cannot prosper if he rules by repression," the US ambassador reported in December 2009 .
(13) Just weeks ago the US ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, was still not getting why protesters were planning those mass demonstrations .
(14) "I had a not altogether satisfactory talk with Mark this morning" begins a typical confidential memo from Nigel Wicks, Mrs Thatcher's principal private secretary, to the British ambassador in Washington.
(15) Zarif, a former ambassador to the United Nations, is a US-educated veteran Iranian diplomat who has previously led secret Tehran-Washington negotiations and is seen as best positioned to normalise bilateral relations between the two countries.
(16) Trump security adviser Flynn resigns after leaks suggest he tried to cover up Russia talks Read more Michael Flynn resigned as national security adviser because of his contacts with the Russian ambassador to Washington and his subsequent attempts to cover up the true nature of those contacts.
(17) The ambassador, Paul Grigson, will leave Jakarta this week in a form of protest Australia did not adopt after several previous cases of citizens facing the death penalty.
(18) Susan Rice, US ambassador to the UN and a former frontrunner to replace Clinton as state secretary, saw her political ambitions cut short after she suggested that the attack could have originated from a spontaneous protest over an anti-Muslim US-made film.
(19) But British ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons famously got it wrong, reporting that the shah's position was secure as late as 1978.
(20) Peter Ford Ambassador to Syria 2003-06 • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
Ambassadorship
Definition:
(n.) The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other highwater marks in the special relationship have followed, although those have flowed not from ambassadorships but the close relations fostered between presidents and prime ministers: Thatcher and Reagan in the 1980s, Tony Blair's friendships with both Bill Clinton and George W Bush.
(2) In a response agreed across government, the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, firmly said there was no vacancy for the ambassadorship, and Downing Street lavishly praised Sir Kim Darroch, the current British ambassador who was by coincidence in London briefing the UK National Security Council on the implications of Trump’s election.
(3) Philanthropy used to be a sort of valedictory endeavor, a vocation taken up after the money had been made, like golf or an ambassadorship.
(4) The committee member Damian Collins has previously said he will ask Coe about his Nike ambassadorship and believes he should sever links with the company due to possible conflicts of interest.
(5) Speculation began that Hockey could be in the running for the ambassadorship to the US when former Labor leader Kim Beazley’s term expires midway through 2016.
(6) A former secretary general to the East African community, and a veteran of several ambassadorship positions, Muthaura was appointed as secretary of the cabinet in 2005, and has regularly infuriated the opposition and diplomats since then with his hardline positions.
(7) The prime minister said Australia’s relationship with the US was “vitally important” and the ambassadorship was a “very important role”.