[f. prec. + -SHIP 3.]
1. The office or position of a writer in the service of the former East India Company. Now Hist.
1763. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. I. 358. The surprising applications made by the top familys for writerships … confounded him.
1800. Asiat. Ann. Reg., Proc., 98. The motives that influenced … their nominations to writerships.
1854. Thackeray, Newcomes, I. 21. Being offered a writership, he scouted the idea of a civil appointment.
2. The office or employment of a clerk; a clerkship.
1884. Public Opinion, 5 Sept., 304. Officers … who are thoroughly competent for writerships in dockyard[s] and victualling yards at home.
