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postgraduate

[ pohst-graj-oo-it, -eyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates:
a postgraduate seminar.

a student who is taking advanced work after graduation, as from a high school or college.

postgraduate

/ pəʊstˈɡrædjʊɪt /

a student who has obtained a degree from a university, etc, and is pursuing studies for a more advanced qualification
modifier of or relating to such a student or to his studies

First recorded in 1855–60; post- + graduate

During the 1990s, however, he went abroad again to finish his postgraduate studies at Glasgow Caledonian University.

In the Northeast, spring is in the air, and at Ivy League schools, kids are planning their postgraduate futures.

She said she might someday go for her postgraduate degree, but she also wants to start several businesses.

I went to Andover with Belichick in the 1970s (he was there for a postgraduate year while I was kept prisoner for four years).

(This may reflect the decided 58-40 pro-Obama tilt of professors, lawyers, teachers, and others with postgraduate degrees).

Have you participated in any postgraduate work since you graduated from high school?

What postgraduate work had you been doing that you just mentioned?

It is hoped that these repeated examinations may lead to the continuation of such habits of bodily care in postgraduate years.

The postgraduate may play the game using as counters the great and distinctive cheeses of more than fifty countries.

In fact she was merely taking a postgraduate course in certain studies.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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