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professoring

professoring noun: acting as a professor.

Noun

professoring (uncountable)

  1. Acting as a professor.
    • As an occupation, especially when compared to others within organizations, university professoring is unusually free of constraints, opening out to a broad span of personal possibilities.1981, Van Cleve Morris, Deaning, Middle Management in Academe

Origin of professoring

From professor + -ing.

Questions about professoring

What does professoring mean?
Professoring means acting as a professor.
What part of speech is professoring?
Professoring is a noun.

Words near professoring in the dictionary

  1. professoriate
  2. professoriates
  3. professoriats
  4. professorine
  5. professorines
  6. professoring
  7. professorish
  8. professorless
  9. professorlike
  10. professorling
  11. professorlings

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