assistantship
noun
as·sis·tant·ship
ə-ˈsi-stən(t)-ˌship 
: a paid appointment awarded annually to a qualified graduate student that requires part-time teaching, research, or residence hall duties
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My first paying job was a teaching assistantship in graduate school.
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R29 Team, refinery29.com, 8 Mar. 2024
Much of what the countercultural readers of The Whole Earth Catalog knew about computers came via something funded by the U.S. government: a college computer lab, a physics course, a research assistantship, a job at a defense-electronics firm.
—Margaret O’Mara, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
Over the past twenty years, the number of people in the U.S. employed as executive secretaries and administrative assistants has more than halved, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which expects assistantship across industries to decline nine per cent by 2029.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
Moreover, at the post-graduate level, many of them get around Rs12,000 per month as a stipend for teaching and research assistantship.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 July 2022
The current minimum stipend for a nine-month assistantship — employment that helps students pay for school — is $18,340.
—Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
And the dream of ascending from the assistantship of a major American orchestra to its leadership — like rising up a corporate ladder — was cemented in the popular imagination.
—New York Times, 4 June 2021
Spadone earned a Fulbright assistantship to teach English in Indonesia, but instead of attending, the 22-year-old anthropology major spent the last semester of his senior year isolated in his dorm at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York.
—Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2020
Yet global assistantship as apprenticeship remains more notional than actual.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
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R29 Team, refinery29.com, 8 Mar. 2024
Much of what the countercultural readers of The Whole Earth Catalog knew about computers came via something funded by the U.S. government: a college computer lab, a physics course, a research assistantship, a job at a defense-electronics firm.
—Margaret O’Mara, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
Over the past twenty years, the number of people in the U.S. employed as executive secretaries and administrative assistants has more than halved, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which expects assistantship across industries to decline nine per cent by 2029.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
Moreover, at the post-graduate level, many of them get around Rs12,000 per month as a stipend for teaching and research assistantship.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 July 2022
The current minimum stipend for a nine-month assistantship — employment that helps students pay for school — is $18,340.
—Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
And the dream of ascending from the assistantship of a major American orchestra to its leadership — like rising up a corporate ladder — was cemented in the popular imagination.
—New York Times, 4 June 2021
Spadone earned a Fulbright assistantship to teach English in Indonesia, but instead of attending, the 22-year-old anthropology major spent the last semester of his senior year isolated in his dorm at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York.
—Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2020
Yet global assistantship as apprenticeship remains more notional than actual.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
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“Assistantship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assistantship. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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