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accredited

[ uh-kred-i-tid ]

adjective

  1. officially recognized as meeting the essential requirements, as of academic excellence:

    accredited schools.

  2. provided with official credentials, as by a government:

    an accredited diplomatic representative.

  3. accepted as authoritative:

    an accredited theory.



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Other Words From

  • nonac·credit·ed adjective
  • unac·credit·ed adjective
  • well-ac·credit·ed adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of accredited1

First recorded in 1625–35; accredit + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

After that trainer tossed the syringe in the dirt, the reporter collected it and later submitted it to Industrial Laboratories, an accredited horse racing testing facility in Colorado.

We’re using things that were already built, with the Jobs Act for unaccredited investors and special purpose vehicles for accredited investors.

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Current students at accredited colleges or universities are eligible, as are recent graduates who were enrolled in at least one course in the semester before the internship starts.

It was the only free, accredited and teacher-led virtual alternative at the time.

Japan’s government currently bans visitors from 159 countries, including the United States, unless under “special exceptional circumstances” — a designation that includes accredited members of official Olympic delegations.

Both Haidak and Doe have been unable to transfer to accredited four-year universities.

They take multiple choice tests in schools accredited by teams of traveling bureaucrats with clipboards.

For that fall, ABA-accredited law schools chose among 71,755 applicants--and there were only 173 accredited schools that year.

They are accredited by a national midwifery organization, the North American Registry of Midwives.

It is the first expulsion of an officially accredited foreign correspondent in more than a dozen years.

Violation of the immunity due to those who come with this mission, duly accredited, in the form prescribed by international law.

The freckle-faced girl began systematically to fill up the hollow with which she was accredited.

“‘Choose what you want and pay for it,’ is the advice of some accredited sage,” Hadria observed.

But there is a resemblance, and the types are often identical, though the accredited interpretation varies.

The unfortunate woman wished to find a dingue first and be accredited with the discovery.

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