assistant professor

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   a teacher or lower rank than an associate professor

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Questions about assistant professor

What does assistant professor mean?

assistant professor means "a teacher or lower rank than an associate professor".

Is assistant professor a common word?

assistant professor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.