matriculate

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In the early '80s Adani, a matriculate from a Gujarati-medium school, went to Mumbai where he started working in a diamond-processing unit and steadily made his way up, eventually running his own businesses.

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  1. transitive and intransitive verb To admit or be admitted into a group, especially a college or university.
  2. noun One who is admitted as a student to a college or university.

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  • I write from the cutting experience of seeing young women get discouraged because of the loan load they must shoulder to matriculate, and because of the challenges they face searching for knowledge.
  • In the early '80s Adani, a matriculate from a Gujarati-medium school, went to Mumbai where he started working in a diamond-processing unit and steadily made his way up, eventually running his own businesses. —  SiliconIndia.com
  • It was a proud day for Chad when Caleb Hazel took him to "matriculate"--leading him from one to another of the professors, who awed the lad with their preternatural dignity, but it was a sad blow when he was told that in everything but mathematics he must go to the preparatory department until the second session of the term--the "kitchen," as it was called by the students. —  The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
  • When a student enters the university there are certain subjects in which he must matriculate, but there are special ones which he may graduate in or not, as he pleases. —  Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
  • They were allowed to matriculate, but forced to form separate classes and to guarantee 100 guineas for each class. —  Women Workers in Seven Professions
 

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  1. From Medieval Latin mātrīculāre, mātrīculāt-, from Late Latin mātrīcula, list, diminutive of mātrīx, mātrīc-; see matrix.

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  1. from Middle Latin matriculatus, past participle of matriculare (later Italian matricolare = Spanish Portuguese matricular), register, enroll, from Late Latin matricula, a public register, roll, list, diminutive of matrix, a public register: see matricula, matrix.
  2. from Middle Latin matriculatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/məˈtrɪkjuleɪt/
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