Deans

Word DEANS
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /diːnz/

Definitions and meanings of "Deans"

What do we mean by deans?

A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).

A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.

The senior member of some group of people.

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The word "deans" in example sentences

It would seem that at first the deans were the oldest masters. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Superintendent of Schools Jim Yancey also has said that media specialists and most peer counselors, known as deans, will be reinstated for next school year, as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And yet, as I show in my newspaper column out today, if there was still any shred of doubt that we had avoided becoming an Idiocracy, it was only fully snuffed out in the last week by David Broder and Jackson Diehl - two of the alleged "deans" of the Washington media intelligentsia. ❋ Unknown (2009)

How many "deans" does it take to administer the University of Hawaii's John A. Burns School of Medicine? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Under UVa's new hiring procedures implemented in mid-February, any new job posting - with a few notable exceptions, such as deans, nurses and academic and research faculty - must be deemed essential and must be approved by a vice president. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The division of the diocese into deaneries is not obligatory, but in large dioceses the bishop usually entrusts to certain priests known as deans or vicars forane the oversight of the clergy of a portion of his diocese, and generally delegates to them special jurisdictional powers (Third Plen. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Prominent law school deans had testified that the Constitution was on our side. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

To say deans and presidents surrender what little moral authority they have to in-house counsel ignores the reality that reliance on legal compliance is endemic in business and society because of our litigious culture. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Law School has been led by a notably diverse succession of strong, formative deans (among seven deans over the last forty-six years, three have been women and one, African-American). ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Many more contemporary deans are trying to strike a more appropriate work/life balance and are taking active roles in raising their children,” he said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She has recruited an academically distinguished, exceptionally ambitious team of senior administrators and deans who have driven the University's status steadily upward over the last seven years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My colleague Tony Alfieri is quoted in Wanted: law school deans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And where are the deans, provosts and university presidents who will explain in no uncertain terms to their campus communities and to the wider public that weakening due process and freedom of speech protections erodes the framework within which free inquiry flourishes? ❋ Peter Berkowitz (2011)

Two of the school's deans named "the faculty" as their main customer. ❋ Unknown (2012)

He attacks virtually everyone—from overpaid presidents and provosts down through development officers, communications specialists and human-resource staffers—but he reserves his most bitter scorn for the midlevel "associate deans" and "assistant deans" who often have the most direct control over the faculty. ❋ Carl Elliott (2011)

Mr. Ginsberg refers to them as "deanlets," but at my institution they are often called "ass. deans." ❋ Carl Elliott (2011)

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