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assistant professor

noun

  1. a teacher in a college or university who ranks above an instructor and below an associate professor.


assistant professor

noun

  1. a university teacher lower in rank than an associate professor
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • assistant professorship noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of assistant professor1

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
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Example Sentences

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The author is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and teaches psychiatry residents as a clinical assistant professor of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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“Right now we should really be trying to up vaccination rates,” said Kiang, an assistant professor of epidemiology and population health.

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THC targets the same receptors but typically at a far higher dose than what is naturally produced, said Dr. Hilary Marusak, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at Wayne State University.

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“Vaccines are medicines, and all medicines have side effects — even when the net benefit is large,” observes Adam Gaffney, a Harvard medical school assistant professor who has been critical of the study.

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He's assistant professor of finance at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University near Chicago, and has studied how card payment systems work.

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