verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an educated/informed guess (= a guess based on things that you know are correct )
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Stockbrokers try to make educated guesses as to which stocks will do well.
highly skilled/trained/educated
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She is a highly educated woman.
skilled/educated/flexible etc workforce
the educated class
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The educated classes shared certain values and experiences.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
better
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Those households tend to be wealthier and better educated on average, making newspaper readers an attractive market for advertisers.
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They are healthier, happier, safer, better educated and richer.
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New entrants to the job market are considerably better educated than workers who are retiring.
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His judgement is more balanced and he's better educated and better informed.
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Consumers are getting younger and better educated .
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But all of those actions require a much better educated and skilled work-force at the bottom.
highly
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The highly educated women who have started working apace are hardly competing with unskilled men.
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San Diegans also are highly educated , have current passports and subscribe to cable in large numbers.
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Nurses were more highly educated and accountable for their actions as professionals than they used to be.
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Franklin Roosevelt obviously benefited from his elite, highly educated upbringing.
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She was highly educated and was good at crossword puzzles and so unlikely to make such an elementary error.
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Some of them are very highly educated .
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In practice, spoken language interpreters are highly educated and highly trained.
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The arts tourist is more highly educated , more affluent, and stays longer than the average tourist.
less
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Others, often the less educated , believe they have no place in the country.
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Losers were the youth and less educated .
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First, on average, a better-educated person is likely to do the same job better than one who is less educated .
privately
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When this school closed, he was educated privately at home.
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He was educated privately and at Rossall, and went on to study architecture under a tutor at Cambridge.
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He was educated privately in London, and as a young man studied art in Paris.
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He was educated privately at academies in Margate.
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She was privately educated , then went to Edinburgh University and passed part of the preliminary examination in medicine.
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She was educated privately at Lissadell Court, the family estate in county Sligo, Ireland.
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Jabelman was privately educated , and had nurtured his talent as a painter at art school.
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More than two-thirds were privately educated and 400 went to Eton.
well
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Mme Keita probably earns less than I pay my watchman, yet she is skilled and well educated .
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Few presidents and fewer speakers have been as well educated and as knowledgeable as Clinton and Gingrich.
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The sort of people who live and work in Bonn are well educated and open-minded.
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We were well educated and we worked hard.
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Its large population is comparatively well educated .
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But then, she appears to not be quite as well educated as she says she is, either.
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She was well off, well educated , well connected, but she wasn't well.
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In general, they were articulate and well educated .
■ NOUN
child
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The parents take the responsibility of educating their children until they reach the stage of tribal education.
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The couple worked hard, and managed to raise and educate three children and to buy a house.
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On moving here Laura had crises of conscience about how best to educate her youngest child .
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California has to spend nearly $ 2 billion a year educating undocumented children .
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Cartoon capers Champion is a new comic which helps to educate newly diagnosed diabetic children about their condition.
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Some of them are still paying off student loans and confronting the increasing costs of educating their own children .
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In choosing systems of educating deaf children with signs, it is attitude which has determined the choice.
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Morgan Hill schools educate rural low-income children and children from middleand high-income neighborhoods.
class
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Confucianism was above all, in fact, the expression of a particular caste, the educated class known as mandarins.
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The development of Confucianism was closely linked with the teaching of the educated classes .
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But now the emerging educated middle class longed for a democratic government.
family
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We all need to be told we look good, so try to educate your family to support you in this way.
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Parents therefore have a grave duty to educate the family in a critical use of the means of social communication.
girl
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The demand was for a state-backed campaign to educate women and girls .
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She also gave up her profession to educate the girls .
grammar
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He was educated at Appleby grammar school and at eighteen was admitted to the Inner Temple.
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He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster.
home
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When this school closed, he was educated privately at home .
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Lambert said the state has estimated that 75, 000 Texas families are educating their children at home .
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Cameron was educated at home in a remote farmhouse with his younger brother and sister by parents Val and Phil.
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Taylor was educated at home and at a private day-school, and as apprentice to his father.
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He was educated at home and in 1831 was apprenticed to Martin, Dixon &038; Co. of Liverpool.
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Because of poor health he was educated at home before enrolling at Glasgow University to study humanities and classical languages.
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Shortly after her birth the family moved to Clapham, south London, where she was educated at home .
people
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Next comes educating people in dioxin-contaminated areas about steps they can take to protect themselves.
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I get tired of educating people .
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We also educate young people in schools about the dangers of drug use.
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It is about educating people about the true cost of crime and its overall effects, he said.
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The back had its share of expensively educated people .
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He was handsome and educated , so people thought he was a gentleman and trusted him.
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Ours was a union of two educated people , a marriage freely chosen.
population
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Teachers are considered the experts in education and, until the current generation, were much better educated than the general population .
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But the ability to pay for safety nets is just one of the social effects of having an educated population .
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By courageously confronting the cultural dimensions of education, we can make the changes necessary to educate a multiracial student population .
public
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Countryside rangers do everything from educating the public to planting trees and plants to heavy work like repairing pathways.
school
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Good schools would educate their pupils to be useful, practical, and self-motivated.
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Johnny was not lazy, nor was the school failing to educate him decently: He had a learning disorder.
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The Ormerod School educates handicapped children from Oxfordshire.
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Underfunded and paralyzed by provincial bureaucracies, these old schools had failed to educate .
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The task of the school is to educate and to influence the growing mind of the child through knowledge.
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They expect the schools will educate their kids.
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Morgan Hill schools educate rural low-income children and children from middleand high-income neighborhoods.
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She loves the public school system that educates her 14-year-old daughter.
son
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The young Francis had been educated with the sons of the better class of tradesmen.
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Unschooled himself, Tulliver wants to educate his son Tom, although his daughter Maggie is more acute.
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Moua was part of the tiny Hmong intelligentsia, an educated son of a clan elder.
student
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A proclaimed concern for client groups - doctors exist to serve their patients, teachers to educate their students . 6.
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And what made matters more complicated was that City College had chosen to educate precisely such students as these.
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By courageously confronting the cultural dimensions of education, we can make the changes necessary to educate a multiracial student population.
university
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He was educated at the University of Leiden between 1747 and 1749, and then entered the family's banking business.
woman
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The highly educated women who have started working apace are hardly competing with unskilled men.
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Median income growth among educated women , especially those contributing to a two-income household, raised incomes along the upper end.
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The demand was for a state-backed campaign to educate women and girls.
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I come from a people who, even now, seriously distrust educated women , who value family loyalty.
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What had those educated women in that church, many of them with responsible jobs in London, in common with that story?
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This, combined with discrimination against women , meant that educated women were at a double disadvantage.
worker
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He aims to halve unemployment to four percent by 2000 by spending about 10 billion kronor to educate and train workers .
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New entrants to the job market are considerably better educated than workers who are retiring.
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We live in a knowledge-based economy, in which educated workers bridle at commands and demand autonomy.
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The cost of educating this group of workers will be enormous.
■ VERB
born
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He was born and educated in Hartlepool, and has one daughter.
help
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Cartoon capers Champion is a new comic which helps to educate newly diagnosed diabetic children about their condition.
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Another necessary step involves helping to educate those who are less interested and less likely to make an effort to educate themselves.
inform
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Instead of television that at least attempts to inform , educate or entertain the innocent, National Lottery Live!
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Television held the promise, eventually, of informing , educating , and engaging the entire electorate in unprecedented ways.
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It will also inform , educate , surprise, inspire trust and show authority.
need
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Otherwise they risk losing the credibility needed to educate others.
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We thought that was a pretty positive start, considering that they need to educate the market.
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Many New Zealanders need educating about your antiquated laws, since the person you appoint as monarch automatically becomes our monarch too.
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And young people need to be educated in new ways to be employable.
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They need to be educated properly, and society desperately needs them as educated members.
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Those kids need to be educated .
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Jen needs to be educated , you know.
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I need my relationship legalized, and I need the president to educate his public, not to come out against me.
raise
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The couple worked hard, and managed to raise and educate three children and to buy a house.
try
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I was trying to educate the children and what we have done is actually in science, educated the staff.
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I always got involved with clients and spent time trying to educate them about financial management.
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We all need to be told we look good, so try to educate your family to support you in this way.
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Governments everywhere have tried to educate voters about the dilemma of the tax burden and state spending.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
educated guess
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Are at least able to make an educated guess as to who is collapsing the scrummage. 7.
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But, beyond hunches and educated guesses, what about other human characteristics such as beliefs, prejudices and emotions?
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Other of the source studies, however, used patient values, clinician values, or educated guesses.
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Still, money managers, analysts, and economists are taking their best educated guesses.
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That sometimes means making educated guesses.
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The law requires the chief of police to make educated guesses about the likelihood that disorder, damage or disruption will occur.
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Where and what kinds they will be is an open question that is, at best, an educated guess.
university-educated/well-educated/privately-educated etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many of the women had been educated at the best universities abroad.
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We need to educate people so that they understand the importance of a good, healthy diet.
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What we're trying to do is to educate young people to be responsible citizens.
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Youngsters must be educated about the dangers of drugs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A school was established in the former dovecote, where local children as well as those of the family were educated.
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And young people need to be educated in new ways to be employable.
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He was educated at top school Ampleforth - not Eton as many believe.
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I was trying to educate the children and what we have done is actually in science, educated the staff.
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In this new economy, smart businesses rely on an educated workforce to thrive.
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Only a little more educated than his neighbors, he senses trouble.
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They had to be educated on both domestic and international competition.