receivership

1. 1.

   the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver

   “the business is in receivership”

   Broaderstate
2. 2.

   a court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of all

   Broaderproceeding

   law

3. 3.

   the office of a receiver

   Broaderposition

Other forms of receivership

plural

receiverships·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about receivership

What does receivership mean?

receivership means "the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in receivership?

receivership has 4 syllables: re-cei-ver-ship. The stress falls on "cei". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈsivɚˌʃɪp/.

Is receivership a common word?

receivership is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with receivership?

54 words rhyme with receivership. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.