What's the difference between premier and premiership?
Premier
Definition:
(a.) First; chief; principal; as, the premier place; premier minister.
(a.) Most ancient; -- said of the peer bearing the oldest title of his degree.
(n.) The first minister of state; the prime minister.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(2) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
(3) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
(4) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
(5) Huth, a Stoke player for more than five years, has made only one Premier League appearance since suffering a knee injury in November 2013.
(6) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
(7) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
(8) John Carver witnessed signs of much-needed improvement from the visitors in a purposeful spell either side of the interval but it was not enough to prevent a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
(9) The joint Premier League leaders announced the 21-year-old, who can play in central midfield or at right-back, had signed a contract until 2020.
(10) FC Terek Grozny, the newly energised team based in the troubled Caucasus republic of Chechnya , is hoping a slew of high-profile international acquisitions will help it make waves in the Russian premier league, which kicked off last weekend.
(11) Absolute has raised its profile with big-name signings such as Frank Skinner and bought live Premier League football rights for the first time for this season .
(12) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
(13) It is trying to position Sky Arts as the country's premier cultural channel as it attempts to demonstrate to politicians and regulators that it can produce programming that was once the preserve of public service broadcasters like the BBC.
(14) United do not need permission from the Premier League or any other governing body to arrange the games, so the decision will be taken on a logistical basis.
(15) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(16) Newcastle United are “devastated” by their relegation from the Premier League, according to the club’s managing director Lee Charnley.
(17) Following a run which included eight straight draws in the Premier League and a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham last Wednesday, Mubarak had reached the conclusion that Hughes and his coaching staff were not realising the potential of the players City had assembled.
(18) They watch the Premier League everywhere in Africa."
(19) It’s a huge crisis,” added Allan, who is a director of Premier Oil in addition to chairing Brindex.
(20) Watford confirm signing of Uruguay defender Miguel Britos from Napoli Read more Gestede, 26, saw a move to the Premier League fall through in January after Blackburn turned down an offer from Crystal Palace.
Premiership
Definition:
(n.) The office of the premier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead the textbook simply reads: "Traditional industries, such as shipbuilding and coal mining, declined ... during her premiership, there were a number of important economic reforms within the UK".
(2) It’s overtaken the Premiership because of the quality of the players and the teams.
(3) Now, twisted by the likes of the Sun and the Daily Mail to fit their agenda, the term is being used to describe any injunction that prevents them from revealing the identity of people who have asked a judge to prevent publication of articles about their private lives - such as the married Premiership footballer who allegedly had a six-month affair with Welsh model Imogen Thomas (pictured right).
(4) A year ago David Cameron made what was then and is still now the most important speech of his premiership.
(5) This was the low "starter rate" on the first few thousand pounds of income that Gordon Brown introduced in 1999, then abolished in his final budget as chancellor (when the 20p rate was introduced), a decision that was to haunt his premiership.
(6) Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral) 2.13pm BST Scottish Premiership news Some important late goals in Scotland.
(7) Since then, she has set about unravelling key aspects of Osborne’s economic policy and overturning central tenets of Cameron’s premiership, such as his opposition to bringing back grammar schools.
(8) He suggested that if his party did not collectively raise its game it was "heading for relegation from the Premiership".
(9) And despite my disparaging remarks about quite what did Tony achieve from his premiership the fact is if I had to choose between the Blairites and the Brownites I would choose the Blairites."
(10) But they made their move only minutes after Brown had given one of his most effective performances at prime minister's questions and hours after Mandelson had used a speech on growth to mark the end of his temporary disillusionment with his premiership.
(11) Destabilising the NHS at this moment could precipitate one of the biggest crises of his premiership.
(12) "Swindon Town, when they were in the Premiership, went through loads of shirt numbers," says Lee Stickings.
(13) Speaking at the launch of BT Sport , the telecoms company's lavishly funded challenge to Sky's iron grip on Premiership football viewing, Balding said prospects for the women's game were improving.
(14) (I'm thinking in terms of some kind of comparison between average home gate and points accrued with Premiership points being of a higher value than championship points, etc).
(15) Margaret Thatcher visiting British troops on the Falkland Islands in 1983: the war was a turning point in her premiership.
(16) The Falklands war of April-June 1982 was the turning point in Mrs Thatcher's premiership, indeed in her political career.
(17) His pilgrimages have also shored up support for his premiership from ruling party conservatives and from an influential lobby of families bereaved in wartime.
(18) But then I am tremendously excited about the Aviva Premiership final later, for which I have tickets.
(19) Instead, voters stripped away the simple majority the AKP had until then always enjoyed, in effect rejecting his plan to carry on as the most powerful man in the nation after swapping the premiership for the presidency.
(20) But Carney’s intervention denied the champions, lengthening both sides’ winless streaks and denying Victory the chance to claw back ground in the premiership race.