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graduation

[graj-oo-ey-shuhn]

noun

an act of graduating; the state of being graduated.

the ceremony of conferring degrees or diplomas, as at a college or school.

arrangement in degrees, levels, or ranks.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English graduacion < Medieval Latin graduātiōn- (stem of graduātiō). See graduate, -ion

Related forms

non·grad·u·a·tion, noun

post·grad·u·a·tion, adjective

pre·grad·u·a·tion, noun

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Graduation rates matter to politicians and college presidents.

I've been pricing and checking out netbooks for over a year and a half, planning for my eldest daughter's high school graduation.

As a professor, attending graduation ceremonies and parties is always a bittersweet experience for me.

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Graduation rates matter to politicians and college presidents.

I've been pricing and checking out netbooks for over a year and a half, planning for my eldest daughter's high school graduation.

As a professor, attending graduation ceremonies and parties is always a bittersweet experience for me.

The continuing racial disparity in graduation rates.

Enrollments remained strong this year, and reported graduation rates didn't budge.

In light of new data, the state may have schools report the graduation rate and the college-ready rate.

Most black students attend colleges with low graduation rates for black students.

Some of the differences in graduation rates between countries are striking.

It was at a graduation party when his relationship fado truly began.

Undergraduate programmes face termination unless graduation rates improve.

The government measures graduation rates as the percentage of first-time undergraduates who obtain a degree within six years.

Students chat happily on manicured lawns, proudly donning their black graduation robes and snapping photos of each other with.

Students must be proficient in a second language before graduation.

He owned a preschool and took him to see it as well as to a tea school graduation ceremony in his town.

My best friend from college became schizophrenic shortly after graduation.

Here are some of the fastest-growing jobs and how you can prepare yourself for them by graduation day.

High school graduation tests punish victims of a bad education.

Then we'll follow the lives of the student post graduation and compare notes on the two groups.

And the option of using them as a pair or as singles makes graduation to one ski a natural process.

Graduation rates for football players are only slightly better.

As he neared graduation he was still noodling over whether to join the clergy, allowing his father to push him slowly closer.

Defenders of the programs say graduation rates merely reflect the difficulty of the.

He started writing after graduation from high school.

Because total populations and graduation rates differ from state to state, some must hit higher targets than others.

My views on the graduation requirements explain themselves.

Despite the time and money many colleges spend to improve their graduation rates.

At the end of the school year, during graduation ceremonies, her photo popped up in a slide show retrospective.

The authors of a four-year-old project to improve the college graduation rates of minority students.

Graduation day was hot and humid, the sky hazy and overcast.

The federal graduation rate for colleges does not account for transfer students.

Canada is making it easier for foreign students to stay in the country to work for up to three years after graduation.

Graduation dates have nothing to do with it, except to say when you graduated.

The group lauded, in particular, the focus on improving four-year graduation rates and requiring evidence of productivity.

The facts are relatively easy to extract from payroll, credit award, and graduation data.

Students themselves, led by the honor society of two-year colleges, are taking up the call to improve graduation rates.

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World English Dictionary

graduation (ˌɡrædjʊˈeɪʃən)

—n
1.	the act of graduating or the state of being graduated
2.	the ceremony at which school or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
3.	a mark or division or all the marks or divisions that indicate measure on an instrument or vessel

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Word Origin & History

graduation

late 15c., in alchemy, "tempering, refining of something to a certain degree," from graduate (q.v.). General sense of "dividing into degrees" is from 1590s; meaning "action of receiving or giving an academic degree" is from 1630s; in reference to the ceremony where a degree is given, from 1850s.

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