grad school
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3.2
- noun
- /ɡræd skuːl/
- Informal
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posgrado
- After the war, Patterson went back to grad school to get his PhD.
When I got to grad school, my mentality changed.
- When I got to grad school, my mentality changed.
- And my wife had just got accepted into grad school in that same city.
- I was in college and grad school for a long time.
- Then I I went to grad school in the Bay Area.
- She wanted to go to grad school and we thought, great, now we'll move to New York.
- And what's great in STEM is they pay for grad school.
- And it turns out that I can tell you how everybody gets into grad school, more or less, more or less.
- And so Charlie went to grad school, got a master's in English or.
- And I was in grad school, so you know my answer.
- I should have asked earlier, You guys moved to Milwaukee for grad school.
- Some moved on to just having families and kids and not pursuing this business ever again because grad school was a scarring experience.
- We wish we had followed our law and grad school boyfriends to DC or Chicago.
Examples
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When I got to grad school, my mentality changed.
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I plan to start grad school in the fall.
Academic text (2005) -
And my wife had just got accepted into grad school in that same city.
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I mean, if you apply to grad school, it should be free.
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So when I was in grad school, I had a professor.
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I was just calling to see how your grad school applications were going.
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I think I learned more mathematics this week than in three years of grad school.
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She wanted to go to grad school and we thought, great, now we'll move to New York.
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One of the most influential components of a grad school application is the letters of recommendation.
Blog text (1) -
I was just calling to see how your grad school applications were going.
Synonyms
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3.6
A part of a university that offers master's and PhD degrees
How Advanced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a school for graduate-level study' is directly derivable from combining 'grad' (short for graduate) with 'school' (an educational institution); it denotes a school for graduates. This compositional pattern ("school for X") is common in English and many other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Grad school is a short form of 'graduate school': grad means someone who has finished college and school means a place to study. So grad school is a school for people studying for 'master's' or 'doctorate' degrees, which is how we use the term today.