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exam

1

[ ig-zam ]

noun

, Informal.
  1. an examination, as in school.


exam.

2

abbreviation for

  1. examination.
  2. examined.
  3. examinee.
  4. examiner.

exam

/ ɪɡˈzæm /

noun

  1. short for examination


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Word History and Origins

Origin of exam1

First recorded in 1875–80; short form

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Example Sentences

He recently passed both of the final exams his ODU professors let him postpone when he signed with Washington, and he has two 400-level math classes left to earn his degree.

Under the College Board’s new plan, there will be three testing windows for each exam.

A number of states are seeking waivers from the Education Department for this spring, saying that it wouldn’t be fair to force students to take the exams after such a chaotic year and that the results would be meaningless.

Undefeated Gonzaga is staring down history, but its final exam won’t arrive until MarchUnlike Gonzaga, a perch on the top line would be new territory for Houston — at least in the past 35 years.

Yet, the coronavirus has stymied their pursuits at almost every level, from delaying licensing exams and required tests to eliminating opportunities for key clinical work that would aid their job search.

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He was the first person in the country without a vision disability to pass the bar exam orally.

Police violently grabbed him and now Monakhov is facing a psychiatric exam.

An earache in a child with a perfectly normal exam is more difficult to figure out than one with a bulging and inflamed eardrum.

“We hope that the release of this exam will address the principled confusion that the new framework produced,” Coleman wrote.

You never know more than the day you go in and take that bar exam.

But I did not get on at all with mathematics, and in the end of term exam.

Studying for an exam, the year before, he had explained the difference between the two red stars in almost the same words.

This saved the situation, for if the old man had lost his temper, it would have been all up with Dirrik's exam.

Dirrik had never got beyond the rank of "first-hand" on board; it was always this miserable exam that stood in his way.

I thought I was going to have brain fever, or something, and you know what a lot depends on this exam.

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