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plate glass university

plate glass university is the alternative form 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

Forms of plate glass university

pluralplate glass universities

Questions about plate glass university

What is plate glass university the alternative form of?
Plate glass university is the alternative form of plate-glass university.

Words near plate glass university in the dictionary

  1. plate count
  2. plate girder
  3. plate girders
  4. plate glass
  5. plate glass universities
  6. plate glass university
  7. plate glasses
  8. plate lunch
  9. plate lunches
  10. plate mail
  11. plate mark

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