read‧er‧ship /ˈriːdəʃɪp $ -ər-/ noun [uncountable and countable]
[Word Family: noun: read, reader, readership, reading, readability; verb: read; adjective: readable ≠ unreadable]

1. all the people who read a particular newspaper or magazine regularly
readership of
a magazine with a readership of 60,000
They are hoping that the paper will have quite a wide readership.

2. the job that a Reader has in a British university:
a readership in linguistics

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