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

Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images None of this surprises Justin Sinkovich, associate professor and associate director of the School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Columbia College Chicago. — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026

The statement, led by Jordana Cohen, associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, concludes that cuffless models are not yet ready to diagnose or manage hypertension. — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2026

But economic pressures are driving up the price even more, says Gregg Ibendahl, an associate professor of agricultural economics as Kansas State University. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2026

That includes a pivotal scene from Hazelwood’s book, in which Tom (Arty Froushan), an associate professor at Harvard and Adam’s old graduate school friend, attempts to pressure Olive into sleeping with him. — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026

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