adjective
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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By the time she and the Prince were engaged two years later, she was still no better educated .
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They are better educated and more informed - though illiteracy is still widespread among the poor.
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He was among the better educated of the early Methodist preachers and more sober than some in his attitude to supernatural phenomena.
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Not so: the recruit of today is generally better educated and more enquiring than his counterpart of previous decades.
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It had to carry conviction with a better educated , more discriminating public.
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She was more attractive, better educated and more womanly.
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They were better educated and better paid.
highly
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Education Wordsworth was an intelligent and highly educated man: he was a learned, clever, even a witty poet.
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Instead there seems to be an increasing amount of discontent among people, especially the more highly educated sections of society.
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He was the scion of a noble and highly educated family, and correspondent of Gregory the Great.
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Childless men, especially those with a broken marriage, were more likely to be ambitious, highly educated professionals.
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Northern Ireland has a readily available and continuing supply of highly educated school-leavers and graduates essential to your company's growth.
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The best of them have produced a small number of highly educated and skilled people.
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The level of sophistication required here is very great even for highly educated adults.
well
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He came from a good home, was well educated and had every advantage.
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More importantly, she would have met relatively well educated people.
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One of its tenets is that only well educated and professionally trained individuals have the competence to work with the mass media.
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These are the professional women, the graduates, the well educated or highly trained who can command full-time salaries.
■ NOUN
class
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They had little importance, however, outside a small minority of the educated classes .
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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Other of the source studies, however, used patient values, clinician values, or educated guesses .
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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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The law requires the chief of police to make educated guesses about the likelihood that disorder, damage or disruption will occur.
man
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And this is not just a generalised and detached polemic against injustice by an educated man .
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Gifford was a former Royalist officer, an educated man who had himself experienced a fierce inward struggle in his puritan conversion.
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Will Simpson was one of the new breed of educated men .
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Today there are no longer any educated men in the old city.
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All this deeply interested Modigliani who was a remarkably cultivated and educated man , as Paul Alexandre proves.
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He was a cultured, educated man , yet he lacked the simple faith of the poorest of the poor.
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He was a well if conventionally educated man , and a man of various interests and hobbies.
people
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Further, when his influence on educated people is considered, there remain huge problems of discrimination.
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Less formally educated people can acquire professional competence.
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A society consisting of educated people , like a society of healthy people, made economic sense.
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More importantly, she would have met relatively well educated people .
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Your aim should be to speak as educated people you admire speak, clearly and without affectation.
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It came as a shock to Stella, learning that educated people like Dotty Blundell and Meredith adhered to such a faith.
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Even today, most educated people could probably tell you something about Voltaire and Rousseau.
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Many have demonstrated that professional competence can be acquired quite simply and successfully by less educated people .
person
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Among articulate and educated persons in 1860 these were a distinct minority.
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Only on this basis can people make the informed choice which is the hallmark of the educated person .
woman
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Pill use declined, especially among older educated women , from 45 million courses in 1977 to 38 million in 1979.
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Forty-eight percent of university educated women used the sheath compared to 27 percent of the rest.
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Finally, a small group visits Poopathy - the most educated woman in the area.
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Both concluded that the families of educated women were no smaller than the average.
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So it's the educated women who suffer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In general, children of educated parents tend to get better grades.
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The boy came from a good home, was well educated and had every advantage.
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You're smart, you're educated , you shouldn't have any trouble finding a job.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All this deeply interested Modigliani who was a remarkably cultivated and educated man, as Paul Alexandre proves.
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Among articulate and educated persons in 1860 these were a distinct minority.
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Darwin's Origin of Species was totally accessible to the educated laymen.
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Gifford was a former Royalist officer, an educated man who had himself experienced a fierce inward struggle in his puritan conversion.
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Less formally educated people can acquire professional competence.
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Other of the source studies, however, used patient values, clinician values, or educated guesses.
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Romantic nationalism based on the demand for recognition of cultural identity was a sentiment which moved the educated middle classes.