From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgraduategrad‧u‧ate1 /ˈɡrædʒuət/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] 1 SECsomeone who has completed a university degree, especially a first degree → undergraduate a Harvard graduategraduate of a graduate of Edinburgh University university graduates a history graduategraduate in He’s a graduate in philosophy.2 American EnglishSES someone who has completed a course at a college, school etc a high-school graduate
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graduate• Patrick Wallace, an accountancy graduate from Dungannon, and Marcus Campbell both booked their debuts on snooker's most famous stage.• At one point, he hired a young college graduate to help.• Many former students including the Department's first graduate, Mr Eric Jones, enjoyed an afternoon of reminiscences and renewed friendships.• The one that bears a picture of an honorary graduate.• We are currently seeking a recent graduate to join our software team, located on the University of Warwick Science Park.• a high school graduate• He received his degree at eighteen, the youngest graduate in Thiel history.high-school graduate• It was one thing to kiss a girl like Sonya, but Edusha was an intelligent young woman, a high-school graduate.• A recent high-school graduate sat at the reception desk.graduategrad‧u‧ate2 /ˈɡrædʒueɪt/ ●●● S2 W2 verb 1 [intransitive]SEC to obtain a degree, especially a first degree, from a college or universitygraduate from Kate graduated from medical school last year.graduate in He graduated in physics from Cambridge University.2 [intransitive] American EnglishSES to complete your education at high schoolgraduate from Jerry graduated from high school last year.3 → graduate (from something) to something4 [transitive] especially American EnglishSET to give a degree or diploma to someone who has completed a course→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
graduate• What are you going to do after you graduate?• Instead, students who arrive on campus with some community college credits under their belt can graduate early.• The goals include upgrading teachers' performance and boosting to 90 percent the number of students who graduate from high school.• Mitch graduated from Stanford in 1998 with a degree in biochemistry.• We both graduated from the same high school in Queens.• When I graduate I want to study law at the Northeastern university.• She graduated in modern languages and now works as an interpreter.• We expect to graduate nearly 300 students this year.• And once Bunny graduated, so it did.• He was really pleased when he graduated to the bigger ones.graduate from• Ruth graduated from Princeton.graduategrad‧u‧ate3 /ˈɡrædʒuət/ adjective [only before noun] especially American EnglishSEC relating to or involved in studies done at a university after completing a first degree → undergraduate SYN postgraduate British English a graduate studentExamples from the Corpus
graduate• By graduate levels in the universities there will be several thousand.• These days, almost a quarter of Jur entering graduate students are women.• Now there are 3,000 graduate students as well as 11,500 undergraduates.From Longman Business Dictionarygraduategrad‧u‧ate1 /ˈgrædʒuət/ noun [countable]1a person who has completed a university degree course, especially for a first degreea science graduate from Oxford UniversityThe company is looking for a graduate engineer with the ability to lead and motivate a team of four people.2American English a person who has completed a course at a college or schoola Harvard business-school graduategraduategraduate2 adjective [only before a noun] American English a graduate student is someone studying for their second degreegraduategraduate3 /ˈgrædʒueɪt/ verb1[intransitive] to obtain a degree, especially a first degree, from a college or universitygraduate fromHe graduated from the University of California with a degree in mathematics.2[intransitive] American English to complete your education at HIGH SCHOOL3[transitive] American English to give a degree or DIPLOMA to someone who has completed a course4graduate from/to somethingMARKETING to start buying a product etc that is better than the one you bought beforeThey bought low-priced homes after graduating from rooming houses and apartments.→ See Verb tableOrigin graduate1 (1400-1500) Medieval Latin graduatus, from Latin gradus; → GRADE1 