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scholarship

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From scholar +‎ -ship.

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scholarship (countable and uncountable, plural scholarships)

  1. A grant-in-aid to a student.
    Synonyms: allowance, grant, stipend, subsidy, bursary, fellowship
    • 2013, Stuart Wolfendale, Imperial to International, page 192:
      There were proposals to revive choir scholarships, because a shortage of regular choristers meant that weddings often went choirless.
    • 2016 September 15, Riz Ahmed, “Typecast as a terrorist”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Since I was a teenager I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school.
    • 2021 May 18, Catie Edmondson, quoting Debbie Altenburg, “Senate Weighs Investing $120 Billion in Science to Counter China”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 2 June 2021:
      There is a significant investment in scholarships and fellowships and traineeships, so that we are also making sure that we’re investing in domestic work force.
  2. The character or qualities of a scholar.
  3. The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
    Synonym: scholarly method
  4. (uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
    Synonyms: learning, erudition, education, knowledge
    • 2010, Michael T. Cooper, Contemporary Druidry: A Historical and Ethnographic Study, →ISBN:
      I found the website and found people mingling scholarship with faith – great googly moogly!
  5. (Australia, dated) The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.

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scholarship (third-person singular simple present scholarships, present participle scholarshiping or scholarshipping, simple past and past participle scholarshiped or scholarshipped)

  1. (intransitive) To attend an institution on a scholarship.
    • 2012, Joseph Miller, The Wicked Wine of Democracy‎[3], →ISBN, page 205:
      Up from the tenements of the Lower East Side, he had scholarshiped at Cornell and Harvard Law.
  2. (transitive) To grant a scholarship to.
    • 2006, Lloyd Reeb, Unlimited Partnership‎[4], →ISBN, page 138:
      In the first year, twenty children were scholarshiped to attend the Kids Across America Kamp in Branson, Missouri.
    • 2012, Bernard W. Taylor, Introduction to Management Science:‎[5], page 632:
      Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.

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