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plate-glass universities

plate-glass universities is the plural of plate-glass university.

Meaning of plate-glass university

Noun

plate-glass university (plural plate-glass universities)

  1. (UK) Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.
    • The new “red-bricks” of Hull, Exeter and Leicester were followed in the 60s by mass expansion as the “plate-glass universities”, such as Warwick, York and Sussex, came into being.2014 October 12, Julian Coman, “Have England's universities been privatised by stealth?”, in The Observer, →ISSN

Questions about plate-glass universities

What is plate-glass universities the plural of?
Plate-glass universities is the plural of plate-glass university.

Words near plate-glass universities in the dictionary

  1. plate wheel
  2. plate wheels
  3. plate-carrier
  4. plate-carriers
  5. plate-glass
  6. plate-glass universities
  7. plate-glass university
  8. plate-out
  9. plate-spinning
  10. Platea
  11. plateable

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