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accreditate

accreditate verb: to accredit.

Verb

accreditate (third-person singular simple present accreditates, present participle accreditating, simple past and past participle accreditated)

  1. (rare, transitive) To accredit.
    • After I do this and I have proven it to be successful, now they want to accreditate, certify, and license. And, ironically the people that are going to do the accreditation and licensing don't even know what I do.1978, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, Drug Trafficking in and Through Hawaii and Guam: Hearings

Forms of accreditate

third-person singular presentaccreditates
present participleaccreditating
past participleaccreditated
pastaccreditated

Origin of accreditate

Perhaps by back-formation from accreditation.

Questions about accreditate

What does accreditate mean?
Accreditate means to accredit.
What part of speech is accreditate?
Accreditate is a verb.
What is the past tense of accreditate?
The past tense of accreditate is accreditated.

Words near accreditate in the dictionary

  1. accreases
  2. accreasing
  3. accredit
  4. accredit with
  5. accreditable
  6. accreditate
  7. accreditated
  8. accreditates
  9. accreditating
  10. accreditation
  11. accreditation mill

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