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mature student
noun
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▪ Despite being rather depressingly classified as a mature student, she managed to have a pretty wild time in her first year.

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Jericho has altered little since the events described in these chapters, although the curious visitor will no longer find Canal Reach marked upon the street map, for the site of the narrow little lane in which Ms Scott and Mr Jackson met their deaths is now straddled by a new block of flats, in which Mrs Purvis (together with Graymalkin) is happily resettled, and where one of her neighbours is the polymath who once regaled Morse on the history of Jericho and who is now a mature student reading Environmental Studies at London University.

The other was a rather plain and stout mature student in her late twenties, named Cynthia Leigh.

Despite being rather depressingly classified as a mature student, she managed to have a pretty wild time in her first year.

When I find out that she's a mature student and she worked as a secretary for some left-wing publishing company, I try to correct the impression I must have given without whiting it out altogether, if you see what I mean, and I make a bit of a hash of it.