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- noun Plural form of
professoriate .
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Examples
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They are very comfortably off, genuine examples of latte-sipping Hamstead Village socialism Hampstead is a perpetually trendy upper middle class inner suburb of London posing as the conscience of the Anglo-Jewish community, which understands them perfectly and makes sure they get their annual ration of honours, titles, professoriates, knighthoods and damehoods from the British state.
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They are very comfortably off, genuine examples of latte-sipping Hamstead Village socialism Hampstead is a perpetually trendy upper middle class inner suburb of London posing as the conscience of the Anglo-Jewish community, which understands them perfectly and makes sure they get their annual ration of honours, titles, professoriates, knighthoods and damehoods from the British state.
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Yet wherever we look, our colleges and universities are facing overcrowded classrooms, outdated equipment, impoverished libraries, aging professoriates, and budgets so tight even accountants weep.
Can We Have Equality of Opportunity, and Excellence, Too? 1988
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Paris there is the University of Paris, which gives degrees; but there are also the Sorbonne and the Collége de France, places in which professoriates are established for the express purpose of enabling men who have the power of investigation, the power of advancing knowledge and thereby reacting on practice, to do that which it is their special mission to do.
Science & Education Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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