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.
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
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
Hallin left Cambridge after a pass degree to become lecturer on industrial and economical questions in the northern English towns.
From Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
He remembered that Lawrence was taking a "pass" degree in History.
From The Prelude to Adventure by Walpole, Hugh, Sir
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