From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcuracycu‧ra‧cy /ˈkjʊərəsi $ ˈkjʊr-/ noun (plural curacies) [countable] RRCBOthe job or position of a curate, or the period of time that someone has this position
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curacy• I would save myself and those around a lot of heartache by forgetting the Sahara and looking for another curacy.• There was some sort of a row in Gray's first curacy at Narborough.• For the last weeks of his curacy he left the lodgings and hired a room in a small hotel up Mount Pleasant.• He and his wife had offered us accommodation with them from the time my curacy finished until after the expedition.• He then served a second curacy in Drumglass Parish, Dungannon.• He served curacies around Chipping Norton. 