full-fledged

[fool-flejd]
adjective
1.
of full rank or standing: a full-fledged professor.
2.
fully developed.

Origin:
1880–85

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full-fledged
 
adj
See fully fledged

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fully fledged or full-fledged
 
adj
1.  (of a young bird) having acquired its adult feathers and thus able to fly
2.  developed or matured to the fullest degree
3.  of full rank or status
 
full-fledged or full-fledged
 
adj

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full-fledged
1883 in figurative sense; see full (adj.) + fledge.
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Example sentences
She developed a stress fracture in her hip and didn't stop even after it became
  a full-fledged break.
And one doesn't have to be a full-fledged psychopath to share some of the
  psychopath's antisocial propensities.
But it still grew full-fledged fins made of rays and other fin tissues.
The funnel then built upwards to the cloud base for a full-fledged tornado.
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