tutorship
- n teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
- And Hoffa had learned plenty about trouble himself under the tutorship of Detroit's tough Bert Brennana teamster boss he had lately outstripped.
- In the Middle East, Britain's responsibility extends to oilfields and air bases in Iraq, guardianship of Suez and the Sudan, the tutorship of Jordan, to Aden and its naval base .