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 Words From

• re·ac·cred·i·ta·tion noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of accreditation¹

accredit ( def ) + -ation ( def )

Example Sentences

When the school lost its accreditation, she had applied to the University of Alabama’s School of Commerce and Business Administration and was admitted as a junior.

From Time

Luckily for Cuende, IBO’s general manager Chris Cowlbeck, sits on the board of the Media Rating Council, the industry body that hands out accreditation to those measurement systems that meet its criteria.

From Digiday

We can’t really speak to a potential accreditation date, though, which is highly dependent on audit findings.

From Digiday

The post Media Rating Council denies accreditation for Pinterest’s video ad measurements appeared first on Digiday.

From Digiday

In a decision issued Wednesday, Jordan Matsudaira, the deputy undersecretary for education, concurred with career department staffers and an independent advisory board in deeming the accreditation agency unfit.

From Washington Post

There is often a failure of regulations within those countries and no accreditation.

From The Daily Beast

Ryan would expand access to education, break up the “college cartels,” and reform accreditation.

From The Daily Beast

Among the failed legislation: a bill that would have blocked schools with no academic accreditation from receiving GI Bill money.

From The Daily Beast

Initially, he claimed that he “got lost in the creative process and neglected to follow proper accreditation.”

From The Daily Beast

To complete his accreditation, Hourani needed to show at least one collection off the calendar, as well as a fashion godfather.

From The Daily Beast

Moreover, newly assembled faculties would have state accreditation problems.

From Project Gutenberg

What did you understand to mean by proper press accreditation or identification?

From Project Gutenberg

Once accreditation introduces the language game of politics, education distances itself even more from its fundamental mission.

From Project Gutenberg

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