[f. TRUSTEE sb. + -SHIP.] The office or function of a trustee; also, a body of trustees.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Trustee-ship, the office of a trustee.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), IV. vii. 36. To settle and give up my trusteeship is one of the principal motives of my leaving these parts.
1831. Disraeli, Yng. Duke, III. vii. I have just had a note from Challoner, preliminary, I suppose, to my trusteeship.
1883. H. P. Stofford, in Harper’s Mag., Aug., 459/2. He gave his wife the trusteeship of his diet.
1885. Sir J. Pearson, in Law Times Rep., LI. 902/1. The will contained a direction that any vacancy in the trusteeship should be filled up within a year.
1912. Times, 19 Dec., 16/3. Directorates and voting trusteeships of various large banks, financial institutions, and corporations.
