dollarship

English

Etymology

dollar +‎ -ship

Noun

dollarship (uncountable)

1. Monetary concerns; the power of money.
   • 1970, Wilshire's, volumes 2-4, page 36:

     The Lord Norths of our day form steel trusts and sugar trusts and all other kinds of trusts, and then claim — not the divine right of kingship, but — the divine right of dollarship to rule the earth.

   • 2017, Duncan Waite, Ira Bogotch, The Wiley International Handbook of Educational Leadership:

     The failure to proactively create and incentivize leadership programs that address this unique role makes it more likely that models appropriate to different organizational forms, more focused on “dollarship than scholarship,” will dominate.