GRADUATING | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of graduating in English graduating Add to word list Add to word list present participle of graduate graduateverb uk /ˈɡrædʒ.u.eɪt/ us /ˈɡrædʒ.u.eɪt/

graduate verb (EDUCATION)

B2 [ I ] UK to complete a first university degree successfully: graduate from Lorna graduated from Freiburg University.graduate with honours in Tom has just graduated with first-class honours in psychology. B2 [ I or T ] US to complete school, college, or university successfully: graduate from After he graduated from high school, he joined the Army.

• His heart swelled with pride as he stood watching his son graduate.
• He graduated with a second-class honours degree in physics.
• Greg and Jody met in their freshman year at college and married soon after they graduated.
• Both their children graduated with degrees in economics.
• She graduates in July.

University & college education

• academe
• academia
• anti-university
• assistantship
• beadle
• graduate
• graduate assistant
• graduate from something
• graduate in something
• graduate with something
• Oxon
• Panhellenic
• pass degree
• poly
• polytechnic
• university
• unselective
• vice chancellor
• virtual campus
• virtual classroom

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graduate verb (PROGRESS)

[ I ] to move forward or improve: graduate from something to something She graduated from being a secretary to running her own department. Making progress and advancing

• adaptive evolution
• advance the cause
• advanced
• advancement
• age
• boom
• evolved
• fare well
• flourish
• follow a path
• formatively
• jog
• progression
• progressive
• progressively
• punctuated equilibrium
• rebuild
• regenerate
• streak
• wing

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Examples of graduating

graduating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The current study specifically addressed the issue of moral orientation in young physicians graduating from medical school before beginning their residency specialty training. From the Cambridge English Corpus Twenty-six years after graduating he sent a donation for the testimonial of one of his former professors. From the Cambridge English Corpus In 1895, only 4.3% of all pupils graduating from elementary schools entered middle schools. From the Cambridge English Corpus These findings are of particular interest in view of the academic controversy about the relative chances of graduating from university of intermediate and youngest children. From the Cambridge English Corpus Within three years, we believe that the majority of those in our graduating classes will qualify for honors in bioethics and professionalism. From the Cambridge English Corpus Upon graduating, students would return to their father's occupation, rather than entering government schools. From the Cambridge English Corpus Furthermore, graduating women who seek employment in the public sector may well face discrimination and hostility among the predominantly male work force. From the Cambridge English Corpus There is a surplus of pharmacists in the country, with approximately 900 new pharmacists graduating from universities each year. From the Cambridge English Corpus To provide a numerical basis for the discussion, consider the case of a university graduating 1000 engineers a year. From the Cambridge English Corpus The average debt of students graduating in 2003 amounted to £8,666. From the Cambridge English Corpus Breaker's goal in the big game is to prevent too complex winning-set-configurations ('forbidden configurations') from graduating into the small game. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, given the loan repayment conditions at the time of the study, we would not expect graduates to have repaid their loans within 16 months of graduating. From the Cambridge English Corpus Results indicated that petition status and disability classification were not important in differentiating the five groups' cognitive ability, academic achievement skills, and graduating grade point average. From the Cambridge English Corpus The oversupply of doctorates reflected a larger crisis within the university, where a good many graduating students could not find employment in their field of training. From the Cambridge English Corpus Even those enterprises that have made profits and grown deliberately refrain from graduating to formal businesses that can be taxed and regulated, as they expect unfavourable treatment. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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• graduate
• graduate from something
• graduate in something
• graduate with something
• graduate from something/doing something to something/doing something

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