Definition of "generalship"

generalship

/ˈdʒɛn(ə)ɹəlʃɪp/

noun
plural generalships
1. The position or office of a general.
2. The term of office of a military general.
3. The skills or performance of a good general; military leadership, strategy.
  Quotations
  General Polk stated, with all respect to General Bragg’s great abilities in the direction of organization and discipline, that he had been wanting in the higher elements of generalship in the conduct of the campaign; […]
  1893, William M[ecklenburg] Polk, “The Kentucky Campaign”, in Leonidas Polk, Bishop and General, volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. and New York: […], page 158
  At the same time, awed by the brilliant and daring generalship which had enabled the Russian to capture their city with so small a force, the elders gave him the honorific title of ‘Lion of Tashkent’.
  1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 277
  Virtually the whole of the region fell to Saxe's ingenious generalship.
  2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 136
4. By extension, leadership, good management.