degreed
degreed adjective: having an academic degree.
Adjective
degreed (not comparable)
- Having an academic degree.
- Ex-Army Ranger Captain, degreed from Oregon, Princeton, Tulane.1991 December 8, Ian Redford, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 14
- She has been a degreed paralegal for ten years, working for a suburban firm where she specializes in municipal law.1992 April 24, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “The Picque of Women Voters”, in Chicago Reader
Examples of degreed in a sentence
- I have lived to witness the decline of my own class--the professional, degreed scientist--and the rise of the amateur: the curious, interconnected, data-mining amateur.1999 December 24, Edward McSweegan, “Address to the AAAS”, in Science, volume 286, number 5449, →DOI, pages 2462–2464:
- They insinuated that he had no credibility because he wasn't an industry cancer professional or a highly degreed expert.2009 June 28, Andrew Nikiforuk, “A public tarring in Saudi Canada”, in Toronto Star:
Origin of degreed
From degree + -ed.
Questions about degreed
- What does degreed mean?
- Degreed means having an academic degree.
- How do you use degreed in a sentence?
- I have lived to witness the decline of my own class--the professional, degreed scientist--and the rise of the amateur: the curious, interconnected, data-mining amateur.
- What part of speech is degreed?
- Degreed is an adjective.
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