accreditation

[uh-kred-i-tey-shuhn]

noun

1. the act of giving official authority or approval, or the resulting status; certification.

   Today they officially opened the process of accreditation for media wanting to cover World Youth Day.

2. the act of certifying an educational institution or program as meeting all official formal requirements of academic excellence, facilities, curriculum, etc.; the status of being so certified.

   Universities applying for membership in the association must have undergone, at the national or regional level, a process of quality assurance or accreditation.

3. the act of attributing or ascribing some quality, status, or action to a person or thing.

   His other poems added to his accreditation as a first-class poet.

Other Word Forms

• reaccreditation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of accreditation¹

accredit ( def. ) + -ation ( def. )

Example Sentences

Another transfer puts Health and Human Services in charge of a grant program for parents who are attending college, along with management of foreign medical school accreditation.

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However, when she decided in January that she wanted Vukov to rejoin her team, his provisional suspension meant he was denied accreditation at the Australian Open.

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In addition to teachers’ licensure being on the line, repeated failure to comply would allow the state to revoke district accreditation, which could result in a state takeover.

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One of the first in the field, Ben gained his initial biohazard cleaning accreditation by cleaning tomato sauce off a desk in 2000.

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AFP was denied access to the grounds despite having accreditation to cover the election.

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