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senior common room
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senior common room
n
(Social Science / Education) (in British universities, colleges, etc.) a common room for the use of academic staff Compare junior common room
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Journalist" sometimes conjures up images of tabloid hacks putting the verbal knee into the groin of their subjects, while "author" can sound like an habitu of a university's senior common rooms.
OBITUARY; Gordon Burn by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Mawson gives it short shrift: "To me it seemed to be a document full of pious academic theory about the poor, thrashed out in senior common rooms of theological colleges and British Universities by people who had never built or changed anything in their lives .
The Ezekiel of the East End by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
This process has already begun with the formation of our college governing bodies and senior common rooms but this new initiative is another informal way in which members of the local community are invited to get involved".
The appliance of science at the Cafe Scientifique by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
 
 
 
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