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gradewide

gradewide adjective: across an entire grade (school year).

Adjective

gradewide (not comparable)

  1. Across an entire grade (school year).
    • The children, most 9 or 10, then signaled their preferences for the Democratic nomination in a gradewide straw poll.2008 April 19, Jacques Steinberg, “Primary Lures Those Too Young to Vote”, in New York Times

Origin of gradewide

From grade + -wide.

Questions about gradewide

What does gradewide mean?
Gradewide means across an entire grade (school year).
What part of speech is gradewide?
Gradewide is an adjective.

Words near gradewide in the dictionary

  1. grades
  2. grades on a curve
  3. gradeschool
  4. gradeschooler
  5. gradeschoolers
  6. gradewide
  7. gradge
  8. gradges
  9. Gradgrind
  10. Gradgrindery
  11. Gradgrindian

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