TERTIARY | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of tertiary in English tertiaryadjective uk /ˈtɜː.ʃər.i/ us /ˈtɝː.ʃi.er.i/

tertiary adjective (THIRD)

Add to word list Add to word list formal relating to a third level or stage Stages & phases

• beta
• early-stage
• early-term
• formative years
• home run
• home stretch
• in phase/out of phase idiom
• multi-phase
• multi-step
• multiphasic
• on the home straight
• on the home stretch
• period
• point
• shovel-ready
• stage
• staged
• step
• stepping stone
• subphase

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tertiary adjective (EDUCATION)

C1 [ before noun ] mainly UK relating to education in colleges and universities: tertiary education Types of education

• abstinence education
• abstinence programme
• abstinence-only
• academically
• active learning
• classroom
• flipped classroom
• Forest school
• formal education
• higher
• home schooling
• homeschool
• mixed-ability
• nursery
• scholarship
• synchronous
• synchronously
• traineeship
• unacademic
• virtual learning environment

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tertiary adjective (INDUSTRY)

[ before noun ]   business   specialized A tertiary industry provides a service and is not involved with getting the materials with which products are made, or with making products. Industry & industrial processes

• additive manufacturing
• biomanufacturing
• carding
• cauldron
• cleantech
• industry-wide
• injection moulding
• inter-industry
• just-in-time
• law of motion
• pre-industrial
• prebuilt
• prefabricated
• prefabrication
• quality assurance
• synthetically
• unindustrialized
• vitrification
• vulcanization
• vulcanized

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tertiary | Business English

tertiaryadjective uk /ˈtɜːʃəri/ us Add to word list Add to word list relating to a third level or stage: These issues were considered to be of tertiary importance. Compare primary secondary (Definition of tertiary from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of tertiary

tertiary The new university is intended to assist in answering the tertiary education needs of the rapidly growing population of the region. From the Cambridge English Corpus While such secondary or tertiary neural abnormalities may mediate behavioral dysfunction, they are not sites of the primary, triggering cause of the developmental disorder. From the Cambridge English Corpus The primary sector (agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and mining) tends to be more resource-intensive than either the secondary (industry) or tertiary (services) sectors. From the Cambridge English Corpus Industrialization may increase emissions per unit of output, while an expansion of the tertiary sector is expected to reduce them. From the Cambridge English Corpus Each teacher was asked to select two tertiary degree students, one male and one female, to demonstrate diverging teaching. From the Cambridge English Corpus In the tertiary sector, the traditional emphasis is often on external assessment of performance. From the Cambridge English Corpus A frequent reason for tertiary referral for detailed fetal echocardiography is the detection of an irregular heart rate. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, our observations of ethics consultation models pertain mostly to tertiary care settings, which constitute the most-studied chunk of ethics consultation. From the Cambridge English Corpus Many of them are involved in tertiary care medical practice. From the Cambridge English Corpus In the domain of education, many changes were made at the primary through tertiary levels of learning. From the Cambridge English Corpus Most adults had completed no more than eight or nine years of education, and tertiary education was the preserve of a small elite. From the Cambridge English Corpus The choice of secondary and tertiary sources can only be called eclectic. From the Cambridge English Corpus The cluster co-ordinators were beginning to find a role here, drawing on their experience of secondary/tertiary links. From the Cambridge English Corpus Victimization in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia in tertiary care : a controlled study on prevalence and characteristics. From the Cambridge English Corpus Bases are drawn sufficiently separated, perhaps due to tertiary bonds, to preclude hydrogen bonding but to still experience a favorable electrostatic attraction. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of tertiary 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. What is the pronunciation of tertiary?

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in Chinese (Traditional) 第三, 第三的, 第三級的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 第三, 第三的, 第三级的… See more in Spanish terciario, superior, de nivel terciario… See more in Portuguese terciário, superior, do ensino superior… See more in Marathi in Turkish in French in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish महाविद्यालयीन… See more üniversite ayarında eğitim, üçüncü derecede/sırada olan… See more tertiaire… See more tertiair… See more கல்லூரிகள் மற்றும் பல்கலைக்கழகங்களில் கல்வி தொடர்பானது… See more तृतीयक, तीसरा, महाविद्यालयों और विश्वविद्यालयों में शिक्षा से संबंधित… See more મહાવિદ્યાલયો અને વિશ્વવિદ્યાલયોનાં શિક્ષણ સંબંધિત… See more tredje-… See more som kommer i tredje hand, tertiär… See more tinggi… See more tertiär… See more i tredje rekke, tertiær-… See more کالج جہاں پیشہ ورانہ تعلیم دی جاتی ہو… See more третинний… See more కళాశాలలు, విశ్వవిద్యాలయాలలో విద్యకు సంబంధించినది… See more কলেজ এবং বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে শিক্ষার সঙ্গে সম্পর্কিত… See more terciární… See more tingkat tiga… See more ลำดับที่สาม… See more thứ ba… See more wyższy, trzeciorzędny, trzeciego stopnia… See more Need a translator?

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• tertiary education
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• tertiary structure
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