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nounwhipship (countable and uncountable, plural whipships)
plural whipships
- countableuncountablegovernmentThe role or status of parliamentary whip.
He lost his whipship.
1971, Peggy Duff, Left, Left, Left, page 591 more example
He believed that whips in the House of Commons had sometimes stepped from their whipships into peerages; […]
1881, Parliamentary Debates, volume 34, Victoria: Parliament, page 1025
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