associate professor

noun

: a member of a college or university faculty who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor

associate professorship noun

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Lumber About one-third of softwood lumber used in the U.S. is imported from Canada each year, according to Rajan Parajuli, an associate professor of forest economics and policy at North Carolina State University. —

Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 1 Feb. 2025 Public health interventions cannot and do not eliminate all risk, says Rupali Limaye, an associate professor of global and community health at George Mason University. —

Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2025 They’re assembled on-site by crews using high-strength bolts, welds or a combination of both, Ahmed Ibrahim, an associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Idaho in Moscow, told the Idaho Statesman. —

Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 30 Jan. 2025 Nicholas Creel is an associate professor of business law at Georgia College & State University. —

Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for associate professor

Word History

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of associate professor was in 1819

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