associate professor

noun

: a member of a college or university faculty who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor

associate professorship noun

Examples of associate professor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Anyone who has had an abnormal health screening knows the stress of waiting for biopsy results, acknowledges psychologist Andrea Bradford, Ph.D., an associate professor in the department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston. —Diana Kelly Levey, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025

Gideon Nave, an associate professor of marketing for the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, told CNN that any company looking to personalize their products or advertising would find such data highly useful. —Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025

Good habits can protect your back, too, said Dr. Patricia Zheng, an associate professor in the orthopedic surgery department at University of California San Francisco. —Jancee Dunn, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025

The levels in these first results suggest that more testing is warranted, said Susanne Brander, an associate professor and ecotoxicologist at Oregon State University. —Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for associate professor

• aggressor
• assessor
• compressor
• confessor
• depressor
• hairdresser
• necessar
• oppressor
• possessor
• processor
• repressor
• successor