What's the difference between chancellor and chancellorship?
Chancellor
Definition:
(n.) A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
(2) The chancellor confirmed he would bring in a welfare cap of £119.5bn, with the state pension and unemployment benefits exempted from this.
(3) "At the moment there are about 1,600 criminal justice firms, and they all have a contract with the lord chancellor.
(4) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(5) George Osborne’s eighth budget is unlikely to be a radical affair , as the state of the public finances and the upcoming EU referendum limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre.
(6) Even so, the release of the first-half figures could help clear the way for the chancellor, George Osborne, to start selling off the taxpayer’s 79% stake in the bank, a legacy of the institution’s 2008 bailout.
(7) The prime minister and chancellor threaten legal action over any losses incurred by British citizens as banks are nationalized.
(8) Turner was at a meeting last month where the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, clinched an agreement with the five biggest UK banks – Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Standard Chartered – to accept the G20 principles.
(9) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
(10) He poses a far greater risk to our security than any other Labour leader in my lifetime September 12, 2015 “Security” appears to be the new watchword of Cameron’s government – it was used six times by the prime minister in an article attacking Corbyn in the Times late last month, and eight times by the chancellor, George Osborne, in an article published in the Sun the following day.
(11) Imagine the uproar if a Labour chancellor had planned to borrow another £150bn to invest in jobs, infrastructure, training, childcare and house-building.
(12) Freedom of information documents obtained as part of the investigation show that the recently departed leader of the City corporation, Stuart Fraser, had contact with the chancellor, George Osborne, and other senior Treasury ministers and officials 22 times in the 14 months up to March this year.
(13) The chancellor has stated that such levies will also be introduced in France and Germany.
(14) The inference is that it is only because the chancellor is cutting the deficit, or trying to, at a time of depression that interest rates are not much higher.
(15) The first tranche of spending cuts was unveiled not by the chancellor, but by David Laws.
(16) The chancellor said the 2.5% cut in VAT to 15% would last for 13 months and form the centrepiece of a recovery programme which will pump £9.2bn into the economy in 2008 and a further £16.3bn in 2009-10.
(17) Climate change is also high on protesters’ and politicians’ agendas, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, called for the industrial powers to throw their weight behind a longstanding pledge to seek $100bn (£65bn) to help poor countries tackle climate change, agreed in Copenhagen in 2009.
(18) But after the Guardian reported that the chancellor is planning to reduce the 50p rate of tax for the highest earners , the budget could test the strength of Conservative support.
(19) The shadow chancellor suggested the new leader was so lost in thoughts of the last war , he couldn’t open his mouth.
(20) The former shadow chancellor Ed Balls said that a future Labour government would “press Europe to restore proper borders”.
Chancellorship
Definition:
(n.) The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
(2) These figures will make our heads spin and seem like real action – but it will be sound and fury that signifies little, the hallmark of the Osborne chancellorship.
(3) Corbyn has been urged by some to appoint McDonnell to the shadow chancellorship, so his oldest political ally could lead his central political mission to build support for a strong anti-austerity economic programme.
(4) In an attempt to heal the still raw wounds inside the party, the new leader surprisingly handed the shadow chancellorship to the experienced Alan Johnson , the first supporter of David Miliband's leadership campaign.
(5) The failure of the euro means the failure of Merkel’s [10-year] chancellorship,” said the cover of the latest issue of Der Spiegel, the German weekly.
(6) Osborne, flushed with an election victory and with Labour in disarray, pressed ahead with the big decisions that would define his chancellorship.
(7) He needs to navigate a fraught reshuffle, probably on Friday, that could see changes to the chancellorship and the Home Office, two of three great offices of state.
(8) It was revealed that all five senior posts, including the chancellorship, were to be held by men.
(9) That would be a catastrophe for Europe.” Der Spiegel in Hamburg called it the biggest day of Merkel’s 10-year chancellorship and appealed to her to “show greatness” and save Europe .
(10) Or the one who opportunistically, even ruthlessly, dropped old allies before the last elections and backtracked when it became clear that her reformist zeal could cost her the chancellorship?
(11) After three postwar decades when cheap oil was taken for granted, the oil-importing nations were hit for six by the 1973-74 oil shock, and Healey’s chancellorship was beleaguered by a quintupling of the price of oil.
(12) For the first decade of her chancellorship she took great care to tread carefully in domestic policies, always intent to avoid or assuage public opposition.
(13) Her advisers cautiously admitted that Merkel would consider it a failure of her chancellorship if a Brexit happened on her watch.
(14) How they do so says a lot about the character of their chancellorship.
(15) According to one senior source: “George watched as Brown devoted his chancellorship to agonising about the next job and wrecked his legacy by allowing the spending to go on too long.” The upshot is that Osborne has yet to decide what to do in circumstances he cannot possibly foresee.
(16) Headlines in recent weeks were dominated by accusations that Steinbrück had given too many paid talks while an MP and his criticism of the low salary that comes with the chancellorship .
(17) At the start of his chancellorship, 3.3 million people paid 40% tax, but this has now jumped to around 4.6 million – and even lifting the starting point to £50,000 won’t reduce that by much, critics say, arguing that inflation and pay rises will continue to drag more households into the upper band.
(18) Helmut Kohl and Helmut Schmidt came close, but neither were in as strong a position as she is at such a late stage in their chancellorships.
(19) After 27 hours without a wink of sleep, and probably the longest meeting of her chancellorship, she told waiting journalists: “The advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
(20) • Michael Mansfield QC is a candidate for the chancellorship of the University of Cambridge.