fully fledged
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- adjective
- -Yes, she's a fully fledged nurse now.
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Watch on YouTubeAnd today I can announce that I am a fully fledged author.
- And today I can announce that I am a fully fledged author.
- But as being a a fully fledged filmmaker, I never was.
- They haven't become fully fledged people yet.
- I mean, they've got, they've got, you know, in fully fledged writing systems and they're writing down their history.
- And in which she got a she got a fully fledged big house and all the cars and got a God knows what.
- This new ruling would finally recognize women as fully fledged mammals, right up there with a camel or a goat, which is disgusting.
Examples
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Silicon Valley Bank, a West Coast institution, will become a fully fledged bank in the UK and provide financing for technology companies (this has actually already happened).
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And today I can announce that I am a fully fledged author.
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You're like a fully fledged adult now.
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That's how you create yourself as a fully fledged thinker.
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They haven't become fully fledged people yet.
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Once Connor has trained up and become fully fledged, you'll welcome back that true assassin feeling.
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Kejriwal hopes the group can become a fully-fledged political party, helping to break through the two major parties' tacit willingness to look the other way when it comes to graft.
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I can now call myself a fully fledged architect after years of hard work and training.
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After completing the necessary training, she became a fully fledged teacher with her own classroom.
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The startup has evolved into a fully fledged company, offering a wide range of products and services.
Synonyms
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Fully developed and ready to eat or use
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Occurs at the most serious or complete stage
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Being more complete and useful after growth or change
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5.1
A person who is completely trained and able to do a job without help
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An animal or person that is an adult, not a young one
Antonyms
How Mature
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'fully' (=completely) modifies 'fledged' (having the feathers/being developed for independent flight), so a learner who knows both words can infer 'fully fledged' = fully developed/mature. This follows a regular modifier + adjective pattern and is cross-linguistically transparent, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
Fully fledged comes from the image of a young bird that is fledged because it has grown all its flight feathers and can leave the nest. So when we call a person or company fully fledged, we mean they are 'fully developed' or have full status.