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swot-vac

swot-vac is the alternative form of swot vac.

Meaning of swot vac

Noun

swot vac (plural swot vacs)

  1. (Australia, informal) In secondary and tertiary education, a period of non-teaching prior to examinations.
    • This is clearly what happens in the "swot-vac" phenomenon: the student rote-learns his material for just long enough to see the exam through.1968, John Burville Biggs, Information and human learning, Australia: Cassell

Forms of swot-vac

pluralswot-vacs

Questions about swot-vac

What is swot-vac the alternative form of?
Swot-vac is the alternative form of swot vac.

Words near swot-vac in the dictionary

  1. swoshing
  2. swot
  3. swot up on
  4. swot vac
  5. swot vacs
  6. swot-vac
  7. swot-vacs
  8. swots
  9. swots up on
  10. swotted
  11. swotted up on

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