postgrad
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of postgrad
First recorded in 1945–50; by shortening
Example Sentences
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“My objective postgrad was to just get a job,” Lee said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
By the last month of application season, I made nearly $7,000—more money than my friends who had sold their souls to corporate America in a postgrad panic.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
A second account, with $6,815, is for medium-term expenses; a third, for postgrad moving expenses, has $6,830.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
Dimitra had boarded the train in Volos on the coast after finishing her postgrad class, and was inside one of the front carriages of the passenger train carrying some 350 people from Athens to Thessaloniki.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2023
Along with Bukowski and Ron Koertge, Locklin’s friend from his Arizona postgrad days, Locklin attracted a devoted readership in the Wormwood Review, one of the biggest of the little magazines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
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