associate professor

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   a teacher lower in rank than a full professor but higher than an assistant professor

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Questions about associate professor

What does associate professor mean?

associate professor means "a teacher lower in rank than a full professor but higher than an assistant professor".

Is associate professor a common word?

associate 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.