passed

[past, pahst]

adjective

1. having completed the act of passing. pass.

2. having received a passing pass grade on an examination or test or successfully completed a school course, year, or program of study.

3. Finance.,  noting a dividend not paid at the usual dividend date.

4. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of passed¹

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

Example Sentences

“We made the wrong decision,” said Norris, who had already been passed by Verstappen in the first corner of the race.

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As the Labour government only controls a minority in parliament, the proposal still needs to be approved by its partners in parliament before being passed.

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Whatever he did not spend during his lifetime would be passed down to his heirs.

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Food and beverage brands have approached Gaffigan in recent years about potential collaborations, but he passed, he said.

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MIDDLETOWN, Pa.—Forty-six years have passed since America’s worst nuclear accident, at Three Mile Island, jolted the country and created skepticism of nuclear energy.

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