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eleven-plus

eleven-plus is the alternative form of eleven plus.

Meaning of eleven plus

Noun

eleven plus (plural eleven pluses)

  1. (UK) An examination formerly administered to all students in their final year of primary education, now used only in a few counties of England and Northern Ireland.
    • The fact that late developers emerged, ripe for grammar school education, having 'failed' the eleven plus test, was embarrassing.1967, Robert John Montgomery, Examinations: An Account of Their Evolution as Administrative Devices in England

Forms of eleven-plus

pluraleleven-pluses

Questions about eleven-plus

What is eleven-plus the alternative form of?
Eleven-plus is the alternative form of eleven plus.

Words near eleven-plus in the dictionary

  1. eleven hundred
  2. eleven o'clock
  3. eleven plus
  4. eleven pluses
  5. eleven-dimensional
  6. eleven-plus
  7. eleven-pluses
  8. eleven-striped blind snake
  9. eleven-striped blind snakes
  10. elevener
  11. eleveners

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