interpretership

plural interpreterships

1. A qualification in interpreting

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

   1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers

2. The state of being an interpreter

   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!

   1909, Leonora Blanche Lang, The Red Book of Heroes