I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a university graduate (= someone who has completed a university course )
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She is a university graduate who speaks three languages.
graduate from university (= leave after getting a degree )
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She graduated from Liverpool University in 2006.
graduate school
graduate/master’s/doctoral thesis
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He wrote his doctoral thesis on contemporary French literature.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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Madge Niven - our oldest graduate at 85 years.
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My first executive assistant was Hu Tsang, a thirty-three year-\#old graduate of the Kennedy School.
recent
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We are currently seeking a recent graduate to join our software team, located on the University of Warwick Science Park.
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A recent high-school graduate sat at the reception desk.
young
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I believe any young graduate would get an awful lot of value from working with people on the shop floor.
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At one point, he hired a young college graduate to help.
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Photo: Pam Meecham, 1999 when she was a young graduate at Yale University.
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He received his degree at eighteen, the youngest graduate in Thiel history.
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After all, he or she is the siren who can lure the young graduate or woman returner into their particular workplace.
■ NOUN
college
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This may not be the high-minded stuff that nudged this soft-spoken Barnard College graduate toward a career in publishing.
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At one point, he hired a young college graduate to help.
course
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It is hardly suited as a textbook for a graduate course in atomic theory.
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The girl who spoke to her was doing a post graduate course in nursing.
degree
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Other developments are probable, including further graduate degrees .
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Get a graduate degree at a civilian university.
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Nursing service administrators are usually chosen from among supervisory registered nurses with administrative abilities and a graduate degree in nursing administration.
engineer
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For graduate engineers with good building experience, the sky's the limit.
post
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The girl who spoke to her was doing a post graduate course in nursing.
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The £200 prize will go to the best presentation by a post graduate student.
program
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Coffman got into the Stanford graduate program in 1971, seeking a doctorate in astronautics.
school
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He's a newly minted law school graduate from Long Island.
student
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It is also responsible for administering the procedures for the admission, supervision and examination of all graduate students .
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I remember one in particular prepared by a graduate student who came from a well-to-do family.
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I started compiling an annotated bibliography of the philosophy of mind when I was a graduate student learning the ropes.
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As a graduate student at the London School of Economics I was taught that stock markets were efficient.
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And we tell our graduate students that they must never take such risks, construing as scruple what in fact is timidity.
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Most of my fellow graduate students could read another language.
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Such interdisciplinary co-operation in teaching and supervision is particularly valuable, as indeed is the international composition of the graduate student body.
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It remains the Second Coming in the eyes of critics, graduate students and indie watchers.
study
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And we have not forgotten those of you who are going on to post graduate studies .
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I could take a leave of absence from graduate study for one year and still have my fellowship held for me.
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Notable among these are Volunteers contemplating careers in the field of economic development, after first pursuing graduate study in economics.
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In addition, she did all the housework, her graduate studies , and held down two part-time jobs.
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Flores also dreams of graduate study .
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She was also doing excellent work in her graduate studies .
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But it was privately, not through the government, and not for advanced field training, but for graduate study .
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As young scholars progress through graduate study , they acquire more than knowledge and method: Strong allegiances are formed.
trainee
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As a matter of fact, I started on this paper as a graduate trainee myself.
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The first one was written by a university senior applying for a graduate trainee position with a bank.
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Geographers are well represented in industry, commerce, government and the professions, and are widely sought-after as graduate trainees .
university
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Einhorn, a Drexel University graduate , has been with Rohm and Haas since 1987.
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Not surprisingly, then, the prime example of this new R &038; B sensibility was a black university graduate .
work
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There should be more graduate work generally, and an increase in the number of undergraduate courses covering wider fields of study.
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I had that experience in my own graduate work as a chemist.
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He was planning to do graduate work in Egyptology, a field that the Afrocentrists had annexed to black studies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a high school graduate
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At one point, he hired a young college graduate to help.
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He received his degree at eighteen, the youngest graduate in Thiel history.
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Many former students including the Department's first graduate , Mr Eric Jones, enjoyed an afternoon of reminiscences and renewed friendships.
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Patrick Wallace, an accountancy graduate from Dungannon, and Marcus Campbell both booked their debuts on snooker's most famous stage.
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The one that bears a picture of an honorary graduate .
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We are currently seeking a recent graduate to join our software team, located on the University of Warwick Science Park.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
just
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Benjamin Braddock, who has just graduated with honours, flies back to his wealthy family in Southern California suburbia.
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In 1963 Vine had just graduated in geophysics from Cambridge.
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I just graduated in May from the conservatory.
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Thousands of students just graduated all over the country in law.
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It was Tom Molineaux, a small, wiry, jumpy sort of person who had just graduated from Polytechnic High.
■ NOUN
class
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You had organized it yourself shortly after graduating from the conducting class at the Musikhochschule in Vienna?
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One entire wall is devoted to photographs of the various sixth-grade and junior high school graduating classes she taught over the years.
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He went from school to college, and he graduated top of his class .
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A dozen eleventh-graders in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, made up the first graduating class .
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Less than 10 % of those who applied for Stanford's graduating class of 2003 got in.
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Ballard counted the number of students qualified to enroll at City in the 1968 graduating classes of two predominantly black high schools.
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The annual graduating class was expected to reach 3, 000 in 1996.
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She graduated fifteenth in a class of five hundred.
college
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He went from school to college , and he graduated top of his class.
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Alvin had gone to work to earn money for college after graduating from high school in June 1948.
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At one college 20 computer students graduated last year.
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He was the third child in a family of six children and the only one to graduate from college .
degree
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There has to be a period of simply understanding how things work; then graduating to some degree of management control.
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Average starting salaries for graduates with technical degrees have also gotten a boost.
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Establishes residence and then applies to San Jose State, where he graduates in Sixty-seven, degree in mathematics.
law
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The list is short-and yet one must note that seventy-five percent of the female lawyers graduated from law school after 1970.
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He tried practicing in a firm after graduating from law school-in and around a stint in the military-and wanted out quickly.
school
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One entire wall is devoted to photographs of the various sixth-grade and junior high school graduating classes she taught over the years.
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My high school graduating class, in a major metropolitan area, had only a few hundred students in it.
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She attended school in Warsaw and graduated from high school in Minto.
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In 1994 the unemployment rate for recent high school graduates not enrolled in college was 36 percent.
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The law school graduated its first black student in 1880.
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The unemployment rate for black high school graduates in 1994 was nearly double that of white high school graduates.
state
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He also graduated from Moorhead State University in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in computer information systems.
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By then, Graham had graduated from Appalachian State University with a degree in business.
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He graduated from North Dakota State University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
student
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In 1985, only 3 percent of medical students graduated owing more than $ 75, 000.
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In the late 1960s between three-quarters and four-fifths of students graduated , generally in four years.
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In 1988, 460,000 students were graduating nationwide, but there was a demand for 700,000 a shortfall, not a surplus.
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The goals include upgrading teachers' performance and boosting to 90 percent the number of students who graduate from high school.
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Thus, employment prospects for students graduating in the accounting field are excellent.
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More students graduate from high school than at any point in our history.
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A.R. You mean that drama students who are graduating from training should have the chance to join Equity?
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Once they entered these programs, the percentage of students expecting to graduate and enter college or vocational training more than doubled.
tax
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They might remember also that without bipartisan accommodation the graduated income tax never would have become a constitutional amendment.
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Taylor attacked a proposal by Forbes to replace the current graduated income tax with a flat tax of 17 percent.
university
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Background: Left nursing in 1986 to study law at East Anglia University , graduating in 1989.
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He tells her that it would be impossible for the university to lock into graduated raises.
year
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Mrs Goode's success follows that of her husband, David, who graduated two years ago in technical and computer studies.
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The country produces some 3,500 engineering graduates a year , only about half as many as private industry needs.
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At one college 20 computer students graduated last year .
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They had not met since they graduated over 20 years previously!
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The emigrants are predominantly young and skilled: Hong Kong is now losing more graduates each year than it produces.
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A Research Dissertation which is late may result in your being unable to graduate for a further year .
years
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A couple of years later he graduated to sticking up posters to advertise concerts.
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Melanie Feinman plans to take five years to graduate from college, a year more than many students.
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Harvard MBAs change employers on average between three and four times in the ten years after they graduate .
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Candidates must have a minimum of 5 years work experience since graduating in economics.
■ VERB
go
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Paul Gross, a chemistry professor at Wake-Forest, recognised Pons' ability and recommended that he go to graduate school.
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She graduated with very good grades and went on to graduate school.
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But it was there that she went , graduating in 1949 when only 19.
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I went to graduate school so I could have a career teaching literature.
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Karen and Jess are planning to go to graduate school.
replace
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The present P10 flat fare using tokens will be replaced by a graduated fare structure using stored-value magnetic stripe cards.
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Taylor attacked a proposal by Forbes to replace the current graduated income tax with a flat tax of 17 percent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mitch graduated from Stanford in 1998 with a degree in biochemistry.
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She graduated in modern languages and now works as an interpreter.
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We both graduated from the same high school in Queens.
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We expect to graduate nearly 300 students this year.
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What are you going to do after you graduate ?
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When I graduate I want to study law at the Northeastern university.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And once Bunny graduated, so it did.
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He was really pleased when he graduated to the bigger ones.
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Instead, students who arrive on campus with some community college credits under their belt can graduate early.
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The goals include upgrading teachers' performance and boosting to 90 percent the number of students who graduate from high school.
III. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By graduate levels in the universities there will be several thousand.
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Now there are 3, 000 graduate students as well as 11, 500 undergraduates.
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These days, almost a quarter of Jur entering graduate students are women.