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faculty

[fak-uhl-tee]

noun, plural -ties.

an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.

one of the powers of the mind, as memory, reason, or speech: Though very sick, he is in full possession of all his faculties.

an inherent capability of the body: the faculties of sight and hearing.

exceptional ability or aptitude: a president with a faculty for management.

Education.

the entire teaching and administrative force of a university, college, or school.

one of the departments of learning, as theology, medicine, or law, in a university.

the teaching body, sometimes with the students, in any of these departments.

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the members of a learned profession: the medical faculty.

a power or privilege conferred by the state, a superior, etc.: The police were given the faculty to search the building.

Ecclesiastical. a dispensation, license, or authorization.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English faculte < Anglo-French, Middle French < Latin facultāt- (stem of facultās) ability, power, equivalent to facil(is) easy (see facile) + -tāt- -ty²; compare facility

Related forms

in·ter·fac·ul·ty, noun, plural -ties, adjective

pro·fac·ul·ty, adjective

un·der·fac·ul·ty, noun, plural -ties.

Synonyms
1. capacity, aptitude, knack, potential, skill. See ability.

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And the major faculty unions, adjunct activists say, cater to the concerns of tenured and tenure-track professors.

Ultimately, the organisation aims to recruit half of both its faculty and its students from outside the country.

Academic journals often solicit book reviews from faculty.

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And the major faculty unions, adjunct activists say, cater to the concerns of tenured and tenure-track professors.

Ultimately, the organisation aims to recruit half of both its faculty and its students from outside the country.

Academic journals often solicit book reviews from faculty.

Besides, it's my good fortune to find any humor in a faculty meeting.

In the long run, it seems they will lose their better faculty and thus have an impact on these service courses.

College faculty members who are bullied or abused by coworkers often feel they must either suffer through it or quit.

It has excellent links with business and good faculty.

The teaching programs of individual faculty members have never been reviewed by all faculty, nor should they be.

But the college has a relatively enormous faculty of tutors one to about eight students.

Librarians who buy these subscriptions for the use of faculty and students can shower you with statistics.

But faculty is difficult to attract and keep with monstrous salaries being offered by private companies.

One faculty suggest that there not be a hard entry-level score on this test.

Summers's decision came after several weeks of agitation by the faculty over the resignation of a dean.

It has expanded rapidly in recent years and is hiring an increasing number of international faculty.

We conducted a training session there with students and faculty who are working to record local.

Some faculty have been complaining about the button-pushing required in broadcast journalism for years.

Many faculty members say that the president does not communicate enough and that his manner is grating.

Part-time faculty members have made major progress in.

Students can develop their own electives in consultation with faculty.

Faculty get a publication and a free book out of it, so it's especially worth it for those.

Gaps in faculty pay between private and public colleges.

We often enjoy doing the same thing to rivals at faculty meetings.

But some students and faculty remain unconvinced current e-textbooks present a compelling alternative to traditional textbooks.

He then accepted a junior faculty position, studying the immune system.

For nearly an hour, it was a normal faculty meeting.

Faculty could pick up sponsors and wear the logos on shirts and stuff.

Faculty pay has been battered by the deepening national.

Students and faculty at trAce work hard to exploit the digital toolbox available to writers and artists.

Instead, he said that faculty activists should open up a more basic debate about the purposes of education.

Atanasoff, a physicist by training, was on the engineering faculty.

There will be no decrease in the number of physics faculty.

And on the faculty is one of the best model airplane pilots on the planet.

If you are a college-level physics faculty and you have a course for education majors, you should use this curriculum.

Many faculty members say it takes more time to develop and teach online courses than traditional ones.

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World English Dictionary

faculty (ˈfæk^əltɪ)

—n , pl -ties
1.	one of the inherent powers of the mind or body, such as reason, memory, sight, or hearing
2.	any ability or power, whether acquired or inherent
3.	a conferred power or right
4.	a. a department within a university or college devoted to a particular branch of knowledge
	b. the staff of such a department
	c. chiefly (US), (Canadian) all the teaching staff at a university, college, school, etc
5.	all members of a learned profession
6.	archaic occupation

[C14 (in the sense: department of learning): from Latin facultās capability; related to Latin facilis easy]

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Word Origin & History

faculty

late 14c., "ability, means, resources," from O.Fr. faculté, from L. facultatem (nom. facultas) "power, ability, wealth," from *facli-tat-s, from facilis (see facile). Academic sense was probably the earliest in English (attested in Anglo-L. from late 12c.), on notion

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of "ability in knowledge." Originally each department was a faculty; the use in reference to the whole teaching staff of a college dates from 1767.

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Medical Dictionary

faculty fac·ul·ty (fāk'əl-tē)
n.
A natural or specialized power of a living organism.

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