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associate professor

noun

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



associate professor

noun

  1. (in the US and Canada) a university teacher lower in rank than a full professor but higher than an assistant professor

  2. (in New Zealand) a senior lecturer holding the rank below 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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of associate professor1

First recorded in 1815–25
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"That's a really large number, a very worrying number" over such a short period, said Dr Matthew Palmer of the UK Met Office, and associate professor at the University of Bristol.

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“The scope and the capacity of the agency has been very intentionally narrowed,” said Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, an associate professor of practice at Columbia Climate School who specializes in national disaster preparedness.

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Allissa V. Richardson, an associate professor of journalism and communication at USC, is the author of “Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism.”

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David Eaves is associate professor of digital government at University College London, and has studied efforts by governments all over the world to digitise their services.

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For France, the visit to Greenland ties into its policy to boost European independence from the US, suggests Marc Jacobsen, associate professor at the Royal Danish Defence College.

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