What's the difference between warden and wardenship?

Warden


Definition:

  • (n.) A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
  • (n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
  • (n.) A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.
  • (n.) A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The warden threatened to have her killed by other inmates.
  • (2) The cuts affect a wide spectrum of projects: youth offending teams will shrink, probation staff numbers will dwindle, refugee advice centres will halve in size, Sure Start services will disappear, domestic violence centres will have to restrict the number of people they can help, HIV-prevention schemes will end, lollipop wardens will no longer be funded, help for women with postnatal depression will vanish, a work scheme for people who are registered blind will be wound down, day centres for street drinkers will close their doors, theatres will get less money, debt advice services will have fewer people available to help, fire stations will shut.
  • (3) Renal blood flow was partially autoregulated after oil blockade of tubules, as indicated by a mean autoregulation index (Semple-de Wardener (1959) of 0-5.
  • (4) Without the team these people would not have become known to the responsible authorities until families, neighbours, and wardens became unable to cope.
  • (5) Police say child B was discovered by a street warden near Kisanga's east London flat on November 24, 2003.
  • (6) Asked about the plan, Baker said on Monday that "both sides of the coalition" wanted high streets to prosper and that he agreed that over-zealous action by traffic wardens could be a problem.
  • (7) The five-day event brings America’s prison industry, wardens, county officials and lobbyists under one roof .
  • (8) Warden Anita Trammell said she thought Lockett spoke.
  • (9) If I'm a successful warden and I do my job and we correct the deviant behaviour, then we should have a parole hearing.
  • (10) There is no Warden Norton pocketing brown envelopes in this instance.
  • (11) After daily injections of melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH), MSH-release inhibiting factor (MIF), or diluent albino rats ran a 12 choice Warden maze for a palatable food reward.
  • (12) In Cover Her Face , the victim is an unmarried mother, charitably employed by the mistress of the manor (the house is still in family hands) as a parlourmaid, on the commendation of the warden of a refuge for "delinquent" girls.
  • (13) I saw traffic wardens, shop assistants, and waiters subjected to rudeness and worse, by people who were clearly loaded.
  • (14) A pilot project in New York City, which designed and implemented a first-response capability for medical emergencies in corporations, using employees in a system congruent with the fire warden plans in effect, was completed in May 1977.
  • (15) It can feel proud of itself, and its former warden.
  • (16) A small, fluorescent traffic warden took him by the hand and led him gently away.
  • (17) Prison wardens have now reportedly eased some of their regulations, prompting Alyokhina to end her fast.
  • (18) During harvest season, many of the boys and girls in the camp will go to work at the nearby farms for as little as $2 (£1.30) a day, said Abu Mohammed, the camp warden.
  • (19) A nurse working in sheltered housing where wardens have been removed told the Guardian: "I have residents who sit in their nightclothes all day because they cannot afford the alternative.
  • (20) One of the wardens resulted anti-HTLV III positive whilst 14 appeared to have been infected by HBV.

Wardenship


Definition:

  • (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a warden.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Undoubtedly there is less violence and abuse among the prisoners under his wardenship than there was under his predecessors.

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