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professorship

American  
[pruh-fes-er-ship] / prəˈfɛs ərˌʃɪp /

noun

  1. the office or post of a professor.


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Etymology

Origin of professorship

First recorded in 1635–45; professor + -ship

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LeCun said he wasn’t going to leave New York or quit his professorship.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

Fitting, then, that she would accept a prestigious guest professorship this year at a German art school.

From New York Times Apr. 6, 2024

The third plaintiff, Paul Marik, said he had been forced to resign a professorship at Eastern Virginia Medical School and as director of the intensive care unit at Senara Norfolk General Hospital in Virginia.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2024

By 1991, he had moved to Seattle, which was his permanent home until 2006, when he accepted an offer of professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.

From Seattle Times Nov. 2, 2023

Since the mid-1960s, he has been working out of a ramshackle Victorian townhouse at the University of California at San Francisco, where he holds a professorship.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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