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grandfathered in

grandfathered in is the simple past and past participle of grandfather in.

Meaning of grandfather in

Verb

grandfather in (third-person singular simple present grandfathers in, present participle grandfathering in, simple past and past participle grandfathered in)

  1. (US, transitive) Synonym of grandfather.
    • In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Guinn v. United States that grandfather clauses were unconstitutional. […] The decision had almost no effect, however. The Oklahoma Legislature met in special session to grandfather in the grandfather clause. The new law said those who had been...2013 October 22, Alan Greenblatt, “The Racial History of the Grandfather Clause”, in NPR, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2019
    Synonyms:
    grandfather

Questions about grandfathered in

What is grandfathered in the simple past and past participle of?
Grandfathered in is the simple past and past participle of grandfather in.

Words near grandfathered in in the dictionary

  1. grandfather's chair
  2. grandfather's clock
  3. grandfather's clocks
  4. grandfather-in-law
  5. grandfathered
  6. grandfathered in
  7. grandfatherhood
  8. grandfathering
  9. grandfathering in
  10. grandfatherings
  11. grandfatherish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grandfathered in (page history and authors); grandfather in (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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