professorship has definitions from the field of work
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[ noun ] (work) the position of professor

Synonyms

chair

Examples

"he was awarded an endowed chair in economics"

Used in print

(Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)

In 1806 his ambition was realized and he became professor of physics at the Copenhagen_University , though not realizing full professorship ( ordinarius ) until 1817 .

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position

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