accreditor
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- noun
- /əˈkrɛdɪtər/
- Formal
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acreditador
- Hospitals, he said, are required by the Joint Commission, a hospital accreditor, to have back-up power capabilities.
- a major accreditor
Examples
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In addition, state agencies and accreditors have been stressing collaboration, especially around the area of assessment.
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The colleges accredited by the council have 18 months to find a new accreditor or risk losing access to federal aid.
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The institution is facing state and federal investigations over spending and other decisions, and its accreditor placed the college on probation in December.
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We will then accept applications for new accreditors who will impose real standards on colleges once again and once and for all.
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An independent tribal-college accreditor would "recognize and validate tribal cultural practices and standards," he says.
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Among other things, the attorneys general said, the accreditor had failed in its oversight of the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges.
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College, in Arizona, the country's oldest tribal college, says creating a tribal-college accreditor is about living up to the ideal of tribal self-determination.
Academic text (2017) -
Since becoming president of the University of Phoenix in June 2014, Timothy P. Slottow has helped the institution restore its standing with its accreditor, overturn a suspension by the U.S. Department of Defense, and respond to a continuing Federal Trade Commission inquiry over marketing and recruiting practices.
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Recently, NGATE and its counterpart, TEAG, merged to form GAEP, the new sole specialized accreditor for educator preparation.
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To receive funding from the government, a university must be evaluated and approved by an accreditor recognized by official accrediting bodies.
Synonyms
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A person or organization that checks if something meets needed standards
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A person or tool that checks if information meets required rules
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A person or group that gives official permission for something
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Something that makes a decision seem accepted or legal
A person or group that gives official permission for something
A person or group who gives official approval to something
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Accreditor comes from the same root as credit, which comes from a Latin word meaning 'to believe', so to 'give credit' is to give trust. So an accreditor is a person or group that officially 'gives trust' or approval to a school or program.