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postdoc

n. 1 (context informal English) A postdoctoral academic research position. 2 (context informal English) Someone in such a position.

WordNet
postdoc
  1. n. a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research [syn: post doc]

  2. a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree [syn: post doc]

Usage examples of "postdoc".

In comparison with the bright postdocs who passed through the Center, he had felt slow to catch on to the latest currents.

She had handed off her bacteriocin studies a month ago to some postdocs in Lab 5.

The woman with whom he lived, with whom he had gone through graduate school and two postdocs, with whom he had moved to Eumenides Point, taking a small apartment near the beach, near the terminus of the coastal tram, where when one looked back east the point itself just heaved over the horizon, like a dorsal fin seen far out to sea.

Three years ago, two of my postdocs did a research project on mitochondrial DNA sequences from Neandertal bone tissue.