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immatriculate

immatriculate verb: to formally enroll in an institution or register in an official record, especially in the context of getting a university degree or registering a vehicle.

Verb

immatriculate (third-person singular simple present immatriculates, present participle immatriculating, simple past and past participle immatriculated)

  1. To formally enroll in an institution or register in an official record, especially in the context of getting a university degree or registering a vehicle.
    • [...] the bike would come with the paper needed to immatriculate it legally for Switzerland.2005 August 3, Patrick, “Part 2: Rebuilding”, in HONDA TL 250 Bials 1975 Project
    • We will see later what the reason was. But it is clear that the reason was not the confessionality, as it is claimed now, nor the privilege, but to solve a problem: how to immatriculate in the Registry those entities that have a patrimony but lack a written title that accredits it, but it is...2022 April 7, Rafael Miner, “Several experts underline the legality of immatriculation by the Church”, in Omnes Magazine

Forms of immatriculate

third-person singular presentimmatriculates
present participleimmatriculating
past participleimmatriculated
pastimmatriculated

Origin of immatriculate

From Latin immatriculatus.

Questions about immatriculate

What does immatriculate mean?
Immatriculate means to formally enroll in an institution or register in an official record, especially in the context of getting a university degree or registering a vehicle.
What part of speech is immatriculate?
Immatriculate is a verb.
What is the past tense of immatriculate?
The past tense of immatriculate is immatriculated.

Words near immatriculate in the dictionary

  1. immaterializing
  2. immaterially
  3. immaterialness
  4. immaterials
  5. immateriate
  6. immatriculate
  7. immatriculation
  8. immature
  9. immature dependent
  10. immatured
  11. immaturely

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