Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The academic community; academe.
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- noun The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
- noun Continuous study at
higher education institutions ;scholarship .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the academic world
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And on the larger scale, the issue of the role that academia plays on Wall Street and the role that Wall Street plays in academia is not widely known.
Erica Abeel: Will Inside Job Start a Popular Rebellion? Erica Abeel 2010
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The situation in academia is equally exhausting, with academics overburdened with demands for teaching, administration and research.
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And on the larger scale, the issue of the role that academia plays on Wall Street and the role that Wall Street plays in academia is not widely known.
Erica Abeel: Will Inside Job Start a Popular Rebellion? Erica Abeel 2010
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And on the larger scale, the issue of the role that academia plays on Wall Street and the role that Wall Street plays in academia is not widely known.
Erica Abeel: Will Inside Job Start a Popular Rebellion? Erica Abeel 2010
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Actually the publishing industry in academia is well due for a correction, in a broad sense.
Discourse.net: Lessons from the Identity Trail Published Today 2009
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The difference between Continental Europe and the U.S. that led to such a change in academia is that postwar leftism in Europe was obsessed with class.
Matthew Yglesias » Meeting Obama’s College Attainment Goals 2009
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Where in academia is incompetence more evident than in Economics departments?
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And on the larger scale, the issue of the role that academia plays on Wall Street and the role that Wall Street plays in academia is not widely known.
Erica Abeel: Will Inside Job Start a Popular Rebellion? Erica Abeel 2010
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The crunch in academia is very real and has been steadily worsening for decades.
The Iceberg/Powder Keg « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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Anyone who works in academia is aware of this class structure, and very few people are happy about it.
Archive 2008-02-01 Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Think the aesthetic of Blair Waldorf, combined with the personality of Serena van der Woodsen, living out the tropes of a Jane Austen novel—a millennial version of what Gen Z now calls “dark academia.”
The “Scammer” and the Scammed Condé Nast 2023
bilby commented on the word academia
A quick introduction.
October 24, 2008