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noun

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

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Origin of assistant professor

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

OTHER WORDS FROM assistant professor

assistant professorship, noun

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How to use assistant professor in a sentence

“You gotta be okay with okay,” David Daum, an assistant professor of kinesiology at San Jose State University in California, said he tells teachers.
Kids are shooting hoops with rolled up socks, but pandemic physical education is not canceled|Kelly Field|February 12, 2021|Washington Post
I’m an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Utah.
Can I Ask You a Ridiculously Personal Question? (Ep. 451)|Stephen J. Dubner|February 11, 2021|Freakonomics
“We’re standing at an inflection point,” said Sam Scarpino, assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the school’s Emergent Epidemics Lab.
Why Opening Restaurants Is Exactly What the Coronavirus Wants Us to Do|Caroline Chen|February 6, 2021|ProPublica
I asked Jeni Stolow, a social behavioral scientist and assistant professor in the Temple University College of Public Health, why things feel worse to me now than earlier in the pandemic.
Getting a coronavirus vaccine appointment fills me with despair. Every search ends in frustration, and I’m at a low point of a long, dark year.|Marlene Cimons|February 5, 2021|Washington Post

The theory also matches other puzzling observations, according to Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist who helped discover RSL as an undergraduate and is now an assistant professor at Rutgers University.
Mars’s mascara-like streaks may be caused by slush and landslides|Charlie Wood|February 3, 2021|Popular-Science
Professor Penelope Leach told The Daily Beast it was ludicrous to monitor young children in that way.
Britain May Spy on Preschoolers Searching for Potential Jihadis|Nico Hines|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The garrulous assistant to a fading screen siren in Clouds of Sils Maria.
Oscars 2015: The Daily Beast’s Picks, From Scarlett Johansson to ‘Boyhood’|Marlow Stern|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Thankfully, his assistant knows these roads like the back of his hand.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech|Liza Foreman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Shakespeare,” said Professor Watson, “wrote a story for each of us and in them we can hear what we want.
Biking With the Bard|Kara Cutruzzula|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A former superintendent of Milwaukee schools, he is now a Distinguished Professor of Education at Marquette University.
Dr. Howard Fuller's Injustice Education|Campbell Brown|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
More soldiers crowded into the cave and Professor-Commander Krafft came in behind them.
Sense of Obligation|Henry Maxwell Dempsey (AKA Harry Harrison)
John Alphonsus Turretini died; professor of ecclesiastical history at Geneva, distinguished for his learning.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Dr. Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, founded the secret society of the illuminati.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Then my luck changed and I found myself under one of the very greatest teachers of his time, Professor Huxley.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Philip Limborch died; a Dutch professor of divinity, and author of a history of the inquisition.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell

British Dictionary definitions for assistant professor

assistant professor

noun

US and Canadian a university teacher lower in rank than an associate professor

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