Synonyms

passed

American

[past, pahst] / pæst, pɑst /

adjective

having completed the act of passing. pass.
having received a passing pass grade on an examination or test or successfully completed a school course, year, or program of study.
Finance. noting a dividend not paid at the usual dividend date.
U.S. Navy. having successfully completed an examination for promotion, and awaiting a vacancy in the next grade.

a passed chief engineer.

Other Word Forms

unpassed adjective

Etymology

Origin of passed

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English; pass + -ed ²

Example Sentences

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Some of the city’s projected deficits were because of policy commitments passed by the council that weren’t adequately funded, Gusdorf said.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s the unprocessed trauma that gets passed down from generation to generation.

From Los Angeles Times

While Congress and state legislatures have passed reform to soften criminal sentencing laws, immigration detention remains, technically, a civil jurisdiction and outside their scope.

From Salon

If passed, Philadelphia’s “ICE Out” bill would follow Minneapolis’ model.

From Salon

Such an eruption would release a cloud of dense, magnetized plasma, temporarily altering the space around the FRB source as it passed through the line of sight.

From Science Daily

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