deemed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of deem.

   The committee deemed the proposal unworthy of further funding.

   Her conduct was deemed inappropriate by the review board.

   Note

   A regular past form: one spelling covers both the simple past (they deemed it unsafe) and the participle after have or in the passive (it was deemed unsafe). It usually takes an object plus a complement, as in deemed the plan unworkable or deemed it necessary to act. The older judicial meanings, to sentence a person or to administer law, are obsolete. Only the sense of judging or regarding something as being so is in everyday use.

2. 2
   adjective

   Describing a high-performing higher educational institution in India granted accreditation that lets it function with the autonomy of a university.

   The deemed status allowed the institute to design its own curriculum without state interference.

   Several deemed universities across India faced scrutiny over their admission practices.

   Note

   An Indian administrative label that is the past participle put to work as an adjective. It sits almost always before a noun, as in deemed university or deemed status, and it has no degrees of comparison: one institution cannot be more deemed than another. Outside the context of Indian higher education the phrase may puzzle readers, so it is worth glossing when writing for a wider audience.

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