English

Noun

keepership ‎(plural keeperships)

1. The position of a keeper; guardianship, ownership.
   • 1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, Volume 2:

     I wish he had had the keepership of the National Gallery, for I don't think his Government will hold together through many weeks.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 269:

     Camby was given the keepership of one of the two Counter prisons, in Poultry Yard off Cheapside, traditionally run by London's sheriffs, where many convicted of offences in the city courts were held […].