degreed
- adjective
- /dɪˈɡrid/
- Many degreed individuals work in specialized fields like engineering and technology.
- degreed workers
- degreed professionals
They are the most degreed, the most credentialed industry in America.
- They are the most degreed, the most credentialed industry in America.
Examples
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Nearly all the respondents were degreed professionals.
Academic text (1995) -
The university celebrated its degreed graduates at the annual commencement ceremony.
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More than half of S&E-degreed workers are aged 40 or older.
Academic text (2004) -
The remaining 27.7% were degreed in other fields, such as mathematics and nursing.
Academic text (1995) -
Your Eminence and Excellencies, I am not a degreed theologian.
Blog text (32) -
The final papers would have to be signed by a degreed attorney, but there's no reason why he can't help them through the legal hurdles.
Fiction book (1995) -
As a degreed biologist, chemist, and dentist, I find this correlation highly speculative.
Blog text (10) -
Redding and Dowling (1992) address the "rites of passage" that adult students undergo as they move from nondegreed to degreed status.
Academic text (1997) -
He is a highly skilled, degreed professional with a doctorate in psychology.
How Qualified
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word degreed comes from degree, which originally meant a 'step' in progress or learning, and the ending -ed turns it into a word that describes a person. So a degreed person is someone who has taken those academic 'steps' and earned a university degree.