lectureship

[ lek-cher-ship ]

noun

1. the office of lecturer.

ˈlectureship

/ ˈlɛktʃəˌʃɪp /

noun

1. the office or position of lecturer
2. an endowment financing a series of lectures

Word History and Origins

Origin of lectureship¹

First recorded in 1625–35; lecture + -ship

Example Sentences

You see, in a bid to juice enrollment, the university decided to go over Ji-Yoon’s head and give their Distinguished Lectureship post to Duchovny, and she’s determined to talk him out of it.

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Already before he had been appointed to that lectureship in Florence he had felt himself seriously ill.

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There's the assistant lectureship vacant, and the Professor would not like anyone so much.

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Then you and he regard the Lanfear lectureship as having been founded to perpetuate a dogma, not to try and get at the truth?

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Studied mathematics, and accepted an astronomical lectureship at Graz as the first post which offered.

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He would found a lectureship, somewhat like, yet most unlike, that afterward conducted by Joseph Cook.

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