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say it: ri-SEE-vur-ship
receivership is a noun meaning "the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver". It is pronounced /ɹɪˈsivɚˌʃɪp/ — ri-SEE-vur-ship. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver
“the business is in receivership”
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
law
the office of a receiver
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for receivership come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.