degreed

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adjective

Having an academic degree.

UncommonScrabble 10

Meanings

adjectivedegreed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving an academic degree.

    Ex-Army Ranger Captain, degreed from Oregon, Princeton, Tulane.

    1991 December 8, Ian Redford, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 14
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    She has been a degreed paralegal for ten years, working for a suburban firm where she specializes in municipal law.

    1992 April 24, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “The Picque of Women Voters”, in Chicago Reader

    It is presented as pure science, complete with charts, graphs, degreed academics from accredited institutions, and research data to back up its effectiveness--which is obviously how they believe it should be seen but also a handy way to avoid any pesky conflict between church and state.

    1996 October 25, Adam Langer, “Political Gurus”, in Chicago Reader

    I have lived to witness the decline of my own class--the professional, degreed scientist--and the rise of the amateur: the curious, interconnected, data-mining amateur.

    1999 December 24, Edward McSweegan, “Address to the AAAS”, in Science, volume 286, number 5449, →DOI, pages 2462–2464

    They insinuated that he had no credibility because he wasn't an industry cancer professional or a highly degreed expert.

    2009 June 28, Andrew Nikiforuk, “A public tarring in Saudi Canada”, in Toronto Star

Origin

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APA

degreed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/degreed

MLA

“degreed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/degreed. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “degreed,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/degreed.

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