full-fledged
[foo l-flejd]
- of full rank or standing: a full-fledged professor.
- fully developed.
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Origin of full-fledged
First recorded in 1880–85
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Examples from the Web for full-fledged
Contemporary Examples
While Kurdistan is not a full-fledged state and may never be fully independent, it is for now an important island of stability.
But he seems to have a full-fledged wanger going left and another going right connected at the base.
The twins formed the Garden in 2011 as a "side project" that has now blossomed into a full-fledged career.
He went down in the street and a full-fledged, complex attack was initiated by the enemy.
Rather than emerging as a full-fledged personality, he did few national interviews and seemed muzzled by the Romney team.
Historical Examples
What with putting on a robot as a full-fledged police officer.
Arm of the LawHarry Harrison
A full-fledged master, outfitter, owner of a boat—my own boat!
Mayflower (Flor de mayo)Vicente Blasco Ibez
There was a full-fledged panic in that quartette room in an instant.
Ruth Fielding and the GypsiesAlice B. Emerson
The new system did not spring up spontaneously and full-fledged.
SocialismJohn Spargo
For it came not in embryo, not in the egg, so to speak, but full-fledged.
Elsie Marley, HoneyJoslyn Gray
full-fledged
- See fully fledged
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Word Origin and History for full-fledged
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