academic career

collocation in English

meaningsofacademicandcareer

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academic
adjective
uk
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/us
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/
relating to schools, colleges, and universities, or connected with studying and thinking, not with ...
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career
noun[C]
uk
/kəˈrɪər/us
/kəˈrɪr/
the job or series of jobs that you do during your working life, especially if you continue to get better jobs and earn ...
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(Definition ofacademicandcareerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofacademic career

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Born in 1909, hisacademiccareerled to honorary degrees and special events, such as this festschrift for his 80th birthday.
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His wholeacademiccareerconsisted of six stages, which represented six major changes of his views of classical learning.
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Philosophizing with inner-city students was one of the most rewarding experiences of myacademiccareer.
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Can you tell us more about this and other highlights from your earlyacademiccareer?
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Consequently, theacademiccareertrack was changed from an individual promotion path (or tenure track) to a system of fixed positions (formation).
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He wrote no significant poetry during his earlyacademiccareer, focusing instead on instructional texts and literary criticism.
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No doubt happenstance bears much responsibility for the direction taken by anacademiccareer, but there was another influence at work on our pioneers.
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Prior to beginning hisacademiccareer, he spent 30 years in industry in product development and industrial research.
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At the beginning of hisacademiccareerhe had an interest in population geography and migrations.
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Anacademiccareerwas ruled out, yet throughout his life he was to display a profound interest in the natural sciences.
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This led to a highly distinguishedacademiccareerin architecture, especially vernacular architecture, and architectural history.
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Titmuss had acquainted himself, before and during hisacademiccareer, with the institutions which delivered health and welfare services.
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Galileo's family background and education placed him among the engineer-scientists, while his earlyacademiccareerintroduced him into the scholastic philosophy of his time.
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Yet the proportion of girls who took their studies further or embarked on anacademiccareeris lower.
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What those qualifications are everyone will know who is familiar with his distinguishedacademiccareer.
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Clearly, it would be disastrous to him if hisacademiccareerwere interrupted in this way.
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This is a full-grown man, with distinguishedacademiccareer, who writes this about infants of five or six years of age.
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Anacademiccareerbegins earlier, in secondary school, where youngsters build the basis of their general knowledge, especially in maths and science.
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It would be much better that it should not start itsacademiccareeruntil the commencement of the next term.
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