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  • noun the state of being a donor

Etymologies

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From donor +‎ -ship.

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Examples

  • BUT, along with tuiton, grants, and the possibility of 'wonderful' donorship, what is really left over? and who sees it?

    Where Does the Money Go?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Most people tend to see sperm, and their fount, as somewhat expendable due to sheer numbers, the ease of donorship, and the fact that, in many cases, donors lack an interest in fostering any relationship with their specimen's recipient or any resulting child.

    Beth Kohl: Women, Our Relationship to Childbearing and Egg Donorship 2008

  • Peggy Orenstein, in this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine, wrote about in vitro fertilization (IVF) and egg donorship.

    Beth Kohl: Women, Our Relationship to Childbearing and Egg Donorship 2008

  • All actors need to make the current funding system impartial, as well as more efficient, flexible, transparent, and better aligned with principles of good donorship.

    A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008

  • All actors need to make the current funding system impartial, as well as more efficient, flexible, transparent, and better aligned with principles of good donorship.

    A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008

  • While reading this excellent piece, it struck me that one of the fascinating aspects of donorship, and one of its least explored, is that we view biological contributors differently, depending upon the donor's gender.

    Beth Kohl: Women, Our Relationship to Childbearing and Egg Donorship 2008

  • All actors need to make the current funding system impartial, as well as more efficient, flexible, transparent, and better aligned with principles of good donorship.

    A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008

  • Tasteless television show in which we're going to do this, we're trying to get a lot of attention for organ donorship and for the fact that the situation's so bad.

    CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2007 2007

  • Anticoagulants and refrigeration had made blood banking possible, but it took the carnage of the war to make it widely accepted, partly because the ethics of military comradeship broke down resistance to blood donorship.

    Blank Slate Special Report: Crisis CreativityCrisis Creativity Edward Tenner 2006

  • I mean, as of this summer, the U.N. had caught their appeal for international donorship, only had about 15 percent of what they had asked for.

    CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2001 2001

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