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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a school, especially one of higher learning.
  2. adjective Relating to studies that are liberal or classical rather than technical or vocational.
  3. adjective Relating to scholarly performance: a student's academic average.
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  • We called the academic medical practice where her internist and asked for an appointment. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Yet despite playing by the educational rules and excelling in the academic arena, I am being hurt by an Israeli government that has bottled Palestinians up in Gaza rather than allowing them to pursue opportunities abroad. —  karmalised
  • Bush went out of his way to promote Reading First, which the Department of Education described as the academic cornerstone of nclb. —  MoJo Blogs and Articles
  • I certainly don't believe for one second that his intentions included volunteers for McCain, and that kind of blatant disregard for school policy and not-so-subtle interjecting of politics into the academic arena should not go unpunished. —  Hub Politics
  • "This £42 million project will act as a hub for the academic, commercial and civil development of a range of informatics disciplines from e-science and medicine to business and humanities."
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  1. =F. académique = Spanish Portuguese academico = Italian accademico, from Latin academicus, from Greek )Ακαδημεικός, pertaining to the )Ακαδήμεια: see academy.
 

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