deanship
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She will not serve on the clerkship committee under my deanship.
From Slate • May 15, 2021
That title originated as a prank by an evil colleague and is the only deanship I haven’t managed to dodge.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2018
In an email shortly after resigning the $1.1-million-a-year deanship, Puliafito told The Times he made the move voluntarily to pursue a biotech job.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2017
In addition, Stern officially announced last winter that he’s stepping down from the deanship of the Yale School of Architecture, a post he’s held for the last seventeen years.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 21, 2015
The discussion soon yielded a formal offer from Conant of a $12,000 salary to cover a full professorship, along with the deanship of a new graduate school of engineering and applied science.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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