leading academic

collocation in English

meaningsofleadingandacademic

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leading
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈliː.dɪŋ/us
/ˈliː.dɪŋ/
very important or ...
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academic
noun[C]
uk
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/us
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of ...
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(Definition ofleadingandacademicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The chair will be aleadingacademicand the membership will have a balance of persons from both practice and academia.
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The puzzling thing about this book is how it managed to evade the quality controls that are presumably maintained by aleadingacademicpublisher.
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This would create new career paths, promote therapy contribution to advances in the field, empower the team through de-centralised leadership and develop aleadingacademicpractice.
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We have suggested to the associations that the review be steered by a group of three, chaired by aleadingacademiceconomist.
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I was talking recently to aleadingacademicin my part of the world.
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He is a first-class industrial consultant and aleadingacademic.
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They cannot understand the wish to attack our twoleadingacademicinstitutions.
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Advice from aleadingacademichas been sought on the development of the research plan.
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We are at the moment, for instance, studying the views ofleadingacademicauthorities about the organisation of the water industry with particular reference to hydrological research.
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This is in keeping with the vision of being theleadingacademicpublishing house that sets the benchmark for academic, technical, and literary titles.
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Its discovery on a campus of aleadingacademicinstitution has been used to show how little is known about many species.
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For the next 17 years he established himself as aleadingacademic, thinker, writer and consultant on management.
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He quickly became one of theleadingacademicscholars of the school at the age of only 17.
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Many of his former students now occupyleadingacademicand industrial posts in a variety of countries.
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More recently, she has become an expert, perhaps theleadingacademicexpert, on butter sculpture.
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This decision was criticised by the opposition, which had initiated the review when in power, and the review process was questioned by aleadingacademic.
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Though he remained aleadingacademiceconomist, his prestige had diminished.
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Muth was asked for extensive input about her futuristic vision of teaching andleadingacademicinstitutions.
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One of theleadingacademicexperts on media businesses and considered the father of the media economics studies.
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