Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The rank, office, or term of office of a professor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or state of a professor or public teacher.
- noun The period of time during which a professor occupies his office.
- noun A body of professors; the teaching staff of professors in a college or a university.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
professorship
Etymologies
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Examples
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A contraction in applications and placement prospects and the critical assault in the popular media have served to concentrate the minds of the professorate around the future of the profession and the ways law schools educate for that profession.
Oliver R. Goodenough: Educating Digital Lawyers Oliver R. Goodenough 2012
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A contraction in applications and placement prospects and the critical assault in the popular media have served to concentrate the minds of the professorate around the future of the profession and the ways law schools educate for that profession.
Oliver R. Goodenough: Educating Digital Lawyers Oliver R. Goodenough 2012
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A contraction in applications and placement prospects and the critical assault in the popular media have served to concentrate the minds of the professorate around the future of the profession and the ways law schools educate for that profession.
Oliver R. Goodenough: Educating Digital Lawyers Oliver R. Goodenough 2012
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A contraction in applications and placement prospects and the critical assault in the popular media have served to concentrate the minds of the professorate around the future of the profession and the ways law schools educate for that profession.
Oliver R. Goodenough: Educating Digital Lawyers Oliver R. Goodenough 2012
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A contraction in applications and placement prospects and the critical assault in the popular media have served to concentrate the minds of the professorate around the future of the profession and the ways law schools educate for that profession.
Oliver R. Goodenough: Educating Digital Lawyers Oliver R. Goodenough 2012
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A contraction in applications and placement prospects and the critical assault in the popular media have served to concentrate the minds of the professorate around the future of the profession and the ways law schools educate for that profession.
Oliver R. Goodenough: Educating Digital Lawyers Oliver R. Goodenough 2012
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He called this part of the Constitution "the darling of the professorate."
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He called this part of the Constitution "the darling of the professorate."
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He called this part of the Constitution "the darling of the professorate."
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Ironically, it is through the vocabulary of individual rights, academic freedom, balance and tolerance that these forces are attempting to undermine the ideal of the university as a bastion of independent thought and uncorrupted inquiry, to slander - even vilify - an allegedly liberal and left-oriented professorate, to cut already meager federal funding for higher education, to eliminate tenure and to place control of what is taught and said in classrooms under legislative oversight.
Henry Giroux: Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education Under an Obama Regime 2008
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