interpretership

English

Etymology

From interpreter +‎ -ship.

Noun

interpretership (plural interpreterships)

1. A qualification in interpreting
   • 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers‎^[1]:

     He came back to the frontiers and obtained an interpretership at the U.S. Agency at Mackinac.

2. The state of being an interpreter
   • 1909, Leonora Blanche Lang, The Red Book of Heroes‎^[2]:

     Havelock had passed in London the examination necessary for the degree of a qualified Moonshee, or native tutor, and his Persian was so good that regularly throughout his life, when his superior officers wished to mark their appreciation of his services, they recommended him for an interpretership!

Translations

Translations

• French: interprétariat (fr)