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accreditated

accreditated is the simple past and past participle of accreditate.

accreditated is the alternative form of accredited.

Meaning of accreditate

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

Meaning of accredited

Adjective

accredited (comparative more accredited, superlative most accredited)

  1. Given official approval after meeting certain standards, as an accredited university; or as disease free cattle.
    • The answer should give us the— But hallo! here are the accredited representatives of the law.1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 98

Words formed from accreditated

Questions about accreditated

What is accreditated the simple past and past participle of?
Accreditated is the simple past and past participle of accreditate.

Words near accreditated in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accreditated (page history and authors); accreditate (page history and authors); accredited (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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