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- noun Plural form of
fresher .
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Examples
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Most unis put on introduction nights for freshers, which is a great way of meeting new people and you don't want to be the one who misses out on that party.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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H K Abhyankar, director, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, said that over the years they realised that the students most eager to know the freshers were the second year students.
The Times of India 2009
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Within a few months they had lined up a couple of international clients and were recruiting on top Indian campuses for "freshers," or recent engineering graduate students.
India Revisited 2006
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_Beano_ is, or was, the great day on which the new students, the "freshers," were initiated into the mysteries of scholastic life with all manner of weird ceremony and horrible observances.
From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
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They came down from the trenches to this school with a sense of escape from prison, and for the ten days of their course they were like "freshers" at Oxford and made the most of their minutes, organizing concerts and other entertainments in the evenings after their initiation into the mysteries of Vickers and Lewis.
Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919
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In this event, freshmen, referred to as "freshers," participated in activities such as tug-o-war, a wheelbarrow race and iron stomach.
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This year too, they plan to hire 'freshers' in large numbers.
SiliconIndia.com 2009
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In the original film, he demonstrated his abilities with button, zip and even Velcro flies, as he went from room to room conquering the college female student 'freshers'.
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If they are kept waiting three more months, the graduates of 2009 will become the new 'freshers' and these students will lose that status.
IBN Top Headlines 2009
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That made me worry: I'm welfare rep for my college at York University, Goodricke, and I have to make sure all the freshers have a good first couple of weeks.
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