# graduated

Pronunciation: US say "GRAJ-oo-ayt-id" /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒueɪtɪd/; UK say "GRAD-yoo-ayt-id" /ˈɡɹædjueɪtɪd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of graduate. — simple past and past participle of graduate
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of graduate. Use this form for finishing school in the past.
   - _He graduated with honors in chemistry._
   - _Most of the class graduated into a difficult job market._

## Adjective

2. Having earned a university degree or completed a formal course of training.
   - Simple: Having finished a college degree or job training.
   - _The clinic prefers to hire graduated therapists with field experience._
   - _Every graduated architect on the team holds a state license._
3. Marked with a scale of lines indicating measured quantities.
   - Simple: Marked with lines that show amounts or measurements.
   - _A graduated cylinder lets chemists measure liquid volumes precisely._
   - _The surveyor read the height off a graduated staff._
4. Arranged in steps according to grade, level, or degree.
   - Simple: Arranged in order by level or amount, step by step.
   - _Therapists often use a graduated exposure plan to treat phobias._
   - _The agreement laid out a graduated series of sanctions._
5. Increasing in rate as the taxable base grows, so larger amounts are taxed at higher percentages.
   - Simple: Having a tax rate that rises as the amount being taxed gets bigger.
   - _The state replaced its flat tax with a graduated one._
   - _Lawmakers proposed a graduated levy on high property values._
6. Of a tail, having feathers that grow successively longer toward the middle.
   - Simple: Of a bird's tail, having feathers that grow longer toward the middle.
   - _The field guide noted the bird's graduated tail and pointed wingtips._
   - _A graduated tail helps the hawk steer through sharp turns._

## Adjective

7. Arranged or occurring in distinct steps. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Happening or arranged in separate steps.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/graduated (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).