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
Eventually it surfaced that he had some sketchy financial arrangements that included a lucrative lectureship at American University, funded by contributions raised by wealthy former law clients.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2023
Coming up this month, Kennedy’s scheduled to give a talk as part of a lectureship series at a Christian university in Arkansas.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 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
For long he tried strenuously, though vainly, to make his escape to the refuge of some other topic wherein he might, less daringly, discharge the responsibilities of this lectureship.
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by J. Dodd (James Dodd) Jackson
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