degreed en · ADJ
Etymology
From degree + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having an academic degree.
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: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: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: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: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: