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  • noun Plural form of admittance.

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Examples

  • I worry that they are tinkering with the admittances based on financial aid.

    Reed as poster child (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Over all, the university is thrilled "beyond our wildest dreams" because those numbers for the year — in which overall yield is 17.6%, down less than a point — come from a much larger applicant pool and more admittances.

    Private colleges wait to see which accepted students pay up 2010

  • Rates of admittance for treatment for cannabis abuse are fairly high—three admittances per 1,000 users twice the rate in France—though the reason is unclear.

    Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea 2011

  • They didn't find drugs or booze but they did find diarized admittances of the fact that I had sex with my older boyfriend and hid it: I was unceremoniously asked to pack my bags and leave the house.

    blog: I've just seen a face 2009

  • They didn't find drugs or booze but they did find diarized admittances of the fact that I had sex with my older boyfriend and hid it: I was unceremoniously asked to pack my bags and leave the house.

    blog: June 2009 2009

  • The adults in the film are wary of the Americans 'intentions, but hedge such doubts with admittances that they only known the little they do thanks to rumors and hearsay.

    Juli Weiner: Bombs Over Baghdad 2008

  • There ` s really a kind of lack of incentives for doctors to cover out-of-hours care, which has led to an increased number of admittances to emergency departments, which is adding to this problem.

    CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2008 2008

  • Gauteng's high level of violence is being manifested in the province's state hospitals where over a million casualty admittances arising from gushots, stabbings, assaults and vehicle accidents, were recorded in 1998.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • That is, if there was greater care, greater knowledge, and more things discovered, it could be that hospital admittances would increase.

    Castro Addresses Close of Health Conference 1991

  • This saved on hospital admittances, because one of the things we did not know was whether the family doctors would increase hospital admittances or not.

    Castro Addresses Close of Health Conference 1991

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