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nondegree

nondegree adjective: not of or pertaining to an academic degree.

Adjective

nondegree (not comparable)

  1. Not of or pertaining to an academic degree.
    • But upon returning to civilian life in 2003, Mr. Morgan struggled, hopscotching from town to town and holding dead-end jobs, including one as a technician at a garage door company in Colorado Springs, and spending two semesters in 2007 as a nondegree student at the University of Colorado in Boulder...2009 May 9, Serge F. Kovaleski, “From Prep School to Murder Suspect at Wesleyan”, in New York Times

Origin of nondegree

From non- + degree.

Questions about nondegree

What does nondegree mean?
Nondegree means not of or pertaining to an academic degree.
What part of speech is nondegree?
Nondegree is an adjective.

Words near nondegree in the dictionary

  1. nondegradables
  2. nondegradation
  3. nondegradative
  4. nondegraded
  5. nondegreased
  6. nondegree
  7. nondehiscent
  8. nondehydrated
  9. nondehydrating
  10. nondeictic
  11. nondeified

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