graduated

adjective

Having a university degree; having completed training.

Arranged by grade, level, or degree.

Marked with graduations.

(taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.

(ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.

(obsolete) In steps.

Roots

gradusgrad- · Latin · step, degree

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