pass degree

American  

noun

1. (in English universities) an ordinary bachelor's degree conferred without honors.

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Etymology

Origin of pass degree

First recorded in 1910–15

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Example Sentences

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pass degree

He remembered that Lawrence was taking a "pass" degree in History.

From The Prelude to Adventure by Sir Hugh Walpole

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 John Buchan

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 W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

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

That is, it would seem, a pass degree tends to make a man a Tory.

From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various

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