sessional
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- adjective
- /ˈsɛʃənl/
- UK
- She attended a sessional class on literature that focused on contemporary authors.
- Sessional Papers
Examples
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Todd Blayone is an international researcher, sessional instructor, and technologist addressing digital readiness and post-industrial learning in post-Soviet contexts for educational transformation and social progress.
Academic text (2018) -
Successive development plans of the 1960s, but in particular "Sessional Paper No. 10 on African Socialism," underscored the state's efforts to expand the base of social services to the population.
Academic text (1998) -
Sessional papers credit the photograph to "Prof. Buell."
Fiction book (2002) -
Records of customary use and commercial trade by Ts'msyeen sm'gyigyet are captured in the Canadian Sessional Papers.
Academic text (2007) -
The Albert Road Clinic Consulting Suites is based within the hospital, and this space is tenanted by approximately 40 consultant psychiatrists who work either full-time or on a sessional basis in their private practice.
Blog text (13) -
The university holds a sessional meeting every semester to discuss important academic policies.
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The department organized a series of sessional workshops during the summer term.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sessional comes from session + -al, and session originally meant a 'sitting' from the idea 'to sit', so sessional describes something that happens during a meeting or a school term. That's why we use it for events or duties that occur only in a particular session.