noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a university lecturer/professor
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Her father was a university lecturer and her mother a teacher.
assistant professor
associate professor
full professor/member/colonel etc
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Only full members have the right to vote.
visiting professor
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
assistant
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On I January 1803 he was appointed assistant professor at 100 guineas perannum.
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He got his Nobel for the work he started as an assistant professor at Harvard.
full
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Harris rose to the position of full professor at York in 1971.
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In 1979 the department refused to promote him to full professor .
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Into his life walks the daughter of one of the full professors .
old
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They banged tables and a little old professor would shout and stab the air with his cigar.
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He wondered whether his old professor would have approached him under such circumstances.
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It's true what they say, old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
■ NOUN
associate
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Mr Tolleson returned to his alma mater in 1971 as an associate professor to teach band arranging and music theory.
college
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He must have enjoyed it when he was scoring off his pupils in his days as a college professor .
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Doctoral degree recipients generally become college professors or work in an area of research.
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A survey asked 1,245 randomly selected college professors how much they gave to charity each year.
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He plays Sherman Klump, a college professor and genetics researcher.
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Perhaps this person was a college professor who assigned absurd papers-and too many of them.
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Susana Orozco wants to be an actress or a college professor , is the oldest of three children and loves art class.
emeritus
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He retired in 1964 with the title professor emeritus of the University of London.
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Noel Timms is professor emeritus , University of Leicester.
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Ben Bagdikian, professor emeritus , University of California, Berkeley.
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Nathan Keyfitz, a professor emeritus of sociology and population at Harvard University, has spent considerable time analyzing the debate.
history
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A military history professor is retiring.
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Actually, Wilson had suffered a series of strokes, starting at age thirty-nine when he was a history professor at Princeton.
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A history professor at Baghdad University, Sadoun Fadil, said people rally around their leader during hard times.
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He was going to bury himself in a library for a few years, then become a history professor .
law
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But was I happy for the football mentality when I encountered my first law professors !
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After a year or two with law professors , students have lost their idealism.
math
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For example, one chair went to a female math professor .
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Neither did several other math professors , including Morris Hirsch, who was active in the anti-war movement when Kaczynski taught there.
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Co-star Jeff Bridges is a hapless Columbia math professor who turns to jelly in the presence of beautiful women.
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Y., a Long Island University math professor , pointed out that saving is often not so simple.
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Kaczynski was an assistant math professor at the campus from 1967 to 1969.
psychology
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But my psychology professors seemed not to care at all about minorities.
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Gary Wells, a psychology professor at Iowa State University, suggested that posters with composite drawings asked the wrong questions.
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Two university psychology professors say they have scientific evidence that southerners are more prone to violence than northerners.
school
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Law school professors , in my view, are the drones and morticians of the profession.
sociology
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Tolnay is a sociology professor at the University of Albany in New York.
university
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For example, in 1984, fewer than 3 percent of university professors were women.
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Their fathers were university professors and lawyers and accountants and advertisers who jogged around this lake in support hose.
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He was replaced by Humberto de la Calle, 44, a university professor and barrister.
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William Vickrey, a retired Columbia University professor , died just three days after the prize announcement.
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The group is composed mostly of university professors , though of every persuasion from Keynesian to libertarian to Marxist.
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He was, he said, a university professor .
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Thirty percent of college and university professors , it is asserted, are con men, harassers, layabouts and plagiarists.
■ VERB
become
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Instead, he became a professor of immunology but says that he still enjoys cooking.
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Illmensee became a professor at the University of Geneva and Hoppe went with him.
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Doctoral degree recipients generally become college professors or work in an area of research.
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In 1885 Meldola became professor of chemistry at Finsbury Technical College.
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He was going to bury himself in a library for a few years, then become a history professor .
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He then became professor in Basle, where he remained for the rest of his long life.
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In 1891, he returned to Geneva where in 1906, he became professor of General Linguistics.
retire
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He retired as a professor of chemistry in 1980 but had continued his research until recently.
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William Vickrey, a retired Columbia University professor , died just three days after the prize announcement.
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And what about this retired professor of criminal justice?
study
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A Tokyo professor who studied secret papers, claimed the horror was hushed up after the war.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
emeritus professor/director etc
professor/director etc emeritus
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Ben Bagdikian, professor emeritus , University of California, Berkeley.
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He retired in 1964 with the title professor emeritus of the University of London.
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Nathan Keyfitz, a professor emeritus of sociology and population at Harvard University, has spent considerable time analyzing the debate.
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Noel Timms is professor emeritus , University of Leicester.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Professor Paterson will give the keynote address.
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a professor of physics
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Archie's father is a retired physics professor .
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She's a professor of history at Oxford University.
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The meeting will be chaired by Professor Andrew Jones.
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Who is your economics professor ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Be sure the professor provides intensive feedback and is willing to look at materials from your work.
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Did I need protection, or was the professor miffed for his own reasons?
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From 1984 until the present he was a professor in the department of journalism at New York University.
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Several of the professors were internationally known figures who lectured to large audiences and engaged in public debates over controversial issues.
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The professor , who was greatly respected and whose classes were much enjoyed, used to stage an experiment.
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This professor constantly uses vulgar expressions.
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This professor , at least, and the students at the cabin were happy to see her.