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co-educating

co-educating is the present participle and gerund of co-educate.

Meaning of co-educate

Verb

co-educate (third-person singular simple present co-educates, present participle co-educating, simple past and past participle co-educated)

  1. To educate children of both sexes together.
    • Fiercely academic and successful, these schools, arguably, had resisted the 'egalitarian' impulse to co-educate and were providing a space where girls could aspire to be doctors, mathematicians and politicians.2005, Chris Gaine, Rosalyn George, Gender, 'Race' and Class in Schooling: A New Introduction, page 132

Questions about co-educating

What is co-educating the present participle and gerund of?
Co-educating is the present participle and gerund of co-educate.

Words near co-educating in the dictionary

  1. co-edits
  2. co-eds
  3. co-educate
  4. co-educated
  5. co-educates
  6. co-educating
  7. co-employment
  8. co-endure
  9. co-endured
  10. co-endures
  11. co-enduring

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