lectureship
Americannoun
noun
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the office or position of lecturer
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an endowment financing a series of lectures
Etymology
Origin of lectureship
Example Sentences
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Before getting a permanent lectureship, Dr Lowthian was on a variety of short-term contracts ranging from seven months to two years.
From BBC • Jun. 16, 2023
Harvard confirmed that DeAngelis had an unpaid lectureship in the fall of 2018.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2022
He promised UPenn would sunset a lectureship and retitle a professorship, both named for Kligman, who was white.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 1, 2021
To become invested in “The Chair,” you have to care enough about the details of ivory-tower life, to give a hoot about who gets a lectureship or what an instructor’s score is on RateMyProfessors.com.
From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2021
In 1683 he was elected by the parishioners to the lectureship of St. Olave’s, Southwark, and the vicarage of St. Stephen’s, Coleman-street.
From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Williams, Robert
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