pass degree
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pass degree
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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Ralph Percival was contentedly slacking it in preparation for a pass degree.
From A College Girl by Groome, William H. C.
He had scraped a pass degree at Cambridge, and was now nominally studying medicine.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
At the age of fifteen he entered as a student of civil and canon law at the university of Salamanca; but he obtained no academic distinctions and was content with an ordinary pass degree.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
George, who had been ploughed twice for Smalls and had eventually taken a pass degree, and to whom the law courts were nearly as unknown as the Pyramids, groaned inwardly at the astounding news.
From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John
When he only got a pass degree his friends were astonished; but he shrugged his shoulders and delicately insinuated that he was not the dupe of examiners.
From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
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