adjunct
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- noun
- /ˈædʒʌŋkt/
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profesor adjunto
- In this study, adjunct instructors had a higher average class size than full-time instructors.
- adjunct faculty
- an adjunct faculty member
- an adjunct instructor
She's also opposing her sister, who is the new adjunct to the Empress.
- She's also opposing her sister, who is the new adjunct to the Empress.
Examples
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Elizabeth F. Loftus is a professor of psychology and adjunct professor of law at the University of Washington.
Academic text (1993) -
Many universities rely heavily on adjunct faculty to fill gaps in their teaching staff.
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Adjunct faculty, zero respect and even less pay.
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And then, you know, for many adjuncts that hope comes to nothing.
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Women, she wrote, had not simply been adjuncts to history.
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Students routinely receive additional clinical supervision from adjunct and visiting professors associated with the program.
Academic text (1991) -
The largest percentage of adjunct instructors had less than three years, followed by 3-7 years of teaching experience.
Academic text (2008) -
The anthropology department can't function without adjuncts.
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As noted above, community colleges have kept costs down by substituting adjunct faculty members for higher-cost full-timers.
Academic text (2012) -
Because she was only an adjunct instructor with a single-term contract, Erma Schegloff had no permanent office.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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3.5
A person who helps someone in a job, for example a teacher or politician
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A person who helps staff or members in an organization
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3.2
A person or thing that makes a task easier
A person who helps and acts for someone in charge
Antonyms
How Senior
Surface Forms
Etymology
Adjunct comes from Latin ad- 'to' and jungere 'to join', and is like the English word join. So an adjunct person is someone 'joined to' another as a helper or assistant.