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a teacher in a college or university who ranks above an instructor and below an -ssociate professor.
contemporary examples

“it was exhilarating,” says the university of wisconsin -ssistant professor of arts education.
scott walker’s last stand? democrats lose momentum in wisconsin sally kohn may 31, 2012

do you know richard bargis, -ssistant professor of philosophy at your alma mater?
how to make frenemies on linkedin kelly williams brown march 15, 2014

molly worthen is an -ssistant professor of history at the university of north carolina at chapel hill.
did the southern baptist ‘conservative resurgence’ fail? molly worthen may 31, 2014

eric puchner is an -ssistant professor of literature at claremont mckenna college.
juvenilia: a bibliography eric puchner february 14, 2010

gregory weiner, -ssistant professor of political science at -ssumption college in worcester, m-ss.
obama’s second-term crisis david freedlander january 26, 2013

historical examples

in fact, she is to marry a school-master—that is, an -ssistant professor at yale.
a bicycle of cathay frank r. stockton

the -ssistant professor of history glared through his spectacles.
ann arbor tales karl edwin harriman

mr. brainerd was, however, only an -ssistant professor, and it was now understood by all that he would never be anything higher.
tutors’ lane wilmarth lewis

he saw the -ssistant professor’s wife on the walk below with the little mary.
ann arbor tales karl edwin harriman

the -ssistant professor, squaring his shoulders, -ssumed the privilege of answering the breezy youth.
ann arbor tales karl edwin harriman

noun
(us & canadian) a university teacher lower in rank than an -ssociate professor