verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an educated/informed guess (=a guess based on things that you know are correct)
▪ Stockbrokers try to make educated guesses as to which stocks will do well.
highly skilled/trained/educated
▪ She is a highly educated woman.
skilled/educated/flexible etc workforce
the educated class
▪ The educated classes shared certain values and experiences.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
better
▪ Those households tend to be wealthier and better educated on average, making newspaper readers an attractive market for advertisers.
▪ They are healthier, happier, safer, better educated and richer.
▪ New entrants to the job market are considerably better educated than workers who are retiring.
▪ His judgement is more balanced and he's better educated and better informed.
▪ Consumers are getting younger and better educated.
▪ But all of those actions require a much better educated and skilled work-force at the bottom.
highly
▪ The highly educated women who have started working apace are hardly competing with unskilled men.
▪ San Diegans also are highly educated, have current passports and subscribe to cable in large numbers.
▪ Nurses were more highly educated and accountable for their actions as professionals than they used to be.
▪ Franklin Roosevelt obviously benefited from his elite, highly educated upbringing.
▪ She was highly educated and was good at crossword puzzles and so unlikely to make such an elementary error.
▪ Some of them are very highly educated.
▪ In practice, spoken language interpreters are highly educated and highly trained.
▪ The arts tourist is more highly educated, more affluent, and stays longer than the average tourist.
less
▪ Others, often the less educated, believe they have no place in the country.
▪ Losers were the youth and less educated.
▪ First, on average, a better-educated person is likely to do the same job better than one who is less educated.
privately
▪ When this school closed, he was educated privately at home.
▪ He was educated privately and at Rossall, and went on to study architecture under a tutor at Cambridge.
▪ He was educated privately in London, and as a young man studied art in Paris.
▪ He was educated privately at academies in Margate.
▪ She was privately educated, then went to Edinburgh University and passed part of the preliminary examination in medicine.
▪ She was educated privately at Lissadell Court, the family estate in county Sligo, Ireland.
▪ Jabelman was privately educated, and had nurtured his talent as a painter at art school.
▪ More than two-thirds were privately educated and 400 went to Eton.
well
▪ Mme Keita probably earns less than I pay my watchman, yet she is skilled and well educated.
▪ Few presidents and fewer speakers have been as well educated and as knowledgeable as Clinton and Gingrich.
▪ The sort of people who live and work in Bonn are well educated and open-minded.
▪ We were well educated and we worked hard.
▪ Its large population is comparatively well educated.
▪ But then, she appears to not be quite as well educated as she says she is, either.
▪ She was well off, well educated, well connected, but she wasn't well.
▪ In general, they were articulate and well educated.
■ NOUN
child
▪ The parents take the responsibility of educating their children until they reach the stage of tribal education.
▪ The couple worked hard, and managed to raise and educate three children and to buy a house.
▪ On moving here Laura had crises of conscience about how best to educate her youngest child.
▪ California has to spend nearly $ 2 billion a year educating undocumented children.
▪ Cartoon capers Champion is a new comic which helps to educate newly diagnosed diabetic children about their condition.
▪ Some of them are still paying off student loans and confronting the increasing costs of educating their own children.
▪ In choosing systems of educating deaf children with signs, it is attitude which has determined the choice.
▪ Morgan Hill schools educate rural low-income children and children from middleand high-income neighborhoods.
class
▪ Confucianism was above all, in fact, the expression of a particular caste, the educated class known as mandarins.
▪ The development of Confucianism was closely linked with the teaching of the educated classes.
▪ But now the emerging educated middle class longed for a democratic government.
family
▪ We all need to be told we look good, so try to educate your family to support you in this way.
▪ Parents therefore have a grave duty to educate the family in a critical use of the means of social communication.
girl
▪ The demand was for a state-backed campaign to educate women and girls.
▪ She also gave up her profession to educate the girls.
grammar
▪ He was educated at Appleby grammar school and at eighteen was admitted to the Inner Temple.
▪ He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster.
home
▪ When this school closed, he was educated privately at home.
▪ Lambert said the state has estimated that 75, 000 Texas families are educating their children at home.
▪ Cameron was educated at home in a remote farmhouse with his younger brother and sister by parents Val and Phil.
▪ Taylor was educated at home and at a private day-school, and as apprentice to his father.
▪ He was educated at home and in 1831 was apprenticed to Martin, Dixon &038; Co. of Liverpool.
▪ Because of poor health he was educated at home before enrolling at Glasgow University to study humanities and classical languages.
▪ Shortly after her birth the family moved to Clapham, south London, where she was educated at home.
people
▪ Next comes educating people in dioxin-contaminated areas about steps they can take to protect themselves.
▪ I get tired of educating people.
▪ We also educate young people in schools about the dangers of drug use.
▪ It is about educating people about the true cost of crime and its overall effects, he said.
▪ The back had its share of expensively educated people.
▪ He was handsome and educated, so people thought he was a gentleman and trusted him.
▪ Ours was a union of two educated people, a marriage freely chosen.
population
▪ Teachers are considered the experts in education and, until the current generation, were much better educated than the general population.
▪ But the ability to pay for safety nets is just one of the social effects of having an educated population.
▪ By courageously confronting the cultural dimensions of education, we can make the changes necessary to educate a multiracial student population.
public
▪ Countryside rangers do everything from educating the public to planting trees and plants to heavy work like repairing pathways.
school
▪ Good schools would educate their pupils to be useful, practical, and self-motivated.
▪ Johnny was not lazy, nor was the school failing to educate him decently: He had a learning disorder.
▪ The Ormerod School educates handicapped children from Oxfordshire.
▪ Underfunded and paralyzed by provincial bureaucracies, these old schools had failed to educate.
▪ The task of the school is to educate and to influence the growing mind of the child through knowledge.
▪ They expect the schools will educate their kids.
▪ Morgan Hill schools educate rural low-income children and children from middleand high-income neighborhoods.
▪ She loves the public school system that educates her 14-year-old daughter.
son
▪ The young Francis had been educated with the sons of the better class of tradesmen.
▪ Unschooled himself, Tulliver wants to educate his son Tom, although his daughter Maggie is more acute.
▪ Moua was part of the tiny Hmong intelligentsia, an educated son of a clan elder.
student
▪ A proclaimed concern for client groups - doctors exist to serve their patients, teachers to educate their students. 6.
▪ And what made matters more complicated was that City College had chosen to educate precisely such students as these.
▪ By courageously confronting the cultural dimensions of education, we can make the changes necessary to educate a multiracial student population.
university
▪ He was educated at the University of Leiden between 1747 and 1749, and then entered the family's banking business.
woman
▪ The highly educated women who have started working apace are hardly competing with unskilled men.
▪ Median income growth among educated women, especially those contributing to a two-income household, raised incomes along the upper end.
▪ The demand was for a state-backed campaign to educate women and girls.
▪ I come from a people who, even now, seriously distrust educated women, who value family loyalty.
▪ What had those educated women in that church, many of them with responsible jobs in London, in common with that story?
▪ This, combined with discrimination against women, meant that educated women were at a double disadvantage.
worker
▪ He aims to halve unemployment to four percent by 2000 by spending about 10 billion kronor to educate and train workers.
▪ New entrants to the job market are considerably better educated than workers who are retiring.
▪ We live in a knowledge-based economy, in which educated workers bridle at commands and demand autonomy.
▪ The cost of educating this group of workers will be enormous.
■ VERB
born
▪ He was born and educated in Hartlepool, and has one daughter.
help
▪ Cartoon capers Champion is a new comic which helps to educate newly diagnosed diabetic children about their condition.
▪ Another necessary step involves helping to educate those who are less interested and less likely to make an effort to educate themselves.
inform
▪ Instead of television that at least attempts to inform, educate or entertain the innocent, National Lottery Live!
▪ Television held the promise, eventually, of informing, educating, and engaging the entire electorate in unprecedented ways.
▪ It will also inform, educate, surprise, inspire trust and show authority.
need
▪ Otherwise they risk losing the credibility needed to educate others.
▪ We thought that was a pretty positive start, considering that they need to educate the market.
▪ Many New Zealanders need educating about your antiquated laws, since the person you appoint as monarch automatically becomes our monarch too.
▪ And young people need to be educated in new ways to be employable.
▪ They need to be educated properly, and society desperately needs them as educated members.
▪ Those kids need to be educated.
▪ Jen needs to be educated, you know.
▪ I need my relationship legalized, and I need the president to educate his public, not to come out against me.
raise
▪ The couple worked hard, and managed to raise and educate three children and to buy a house.
try
▪ I was trying to educate the children and what we have done is actually in science, educated the staff.
▪ I always got involved with clients and spent time trying to educate them about financial management.
▪ We all need to be told we look good, so try to educate your family to support you in this way.
▪ Governments everywhere have tried to educate voters about the dilemma of the tax burden and state spending.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
educated guess
▪ Are at least able to make an educated guess as to who is collapsing the scrummage. 7.
▪ But, beyond hunches and educated guesses, what about other human characteristics such as beliefs, prejudices and emotions?
▪ Other of the source studies, however, used patient values, clinician values, or educated guesses.
▪ Still, money managers, analysts, and economists are taking their best educated guesses.
▪ That sometimes means making educated guesses.
▪ The law requires the chief of police to make educated guesses about the likelihood that disorder, damage or disruption will occur.
▪ Where and what kinds they will be is an open question that is, at best, an educated guess.
university-educated/well-educated/privately-educated etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many of the women had been educated at the best universities abroad.
▪ We need to educate people so that they understand the importance of a good, healthy diet.
▪ What we're trying to do is to educate young people to be responsible citizens.
▪ Youngsters must be educated about the dangers of drugs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A school was established in the former dovecote, where local children as well as those of the family were educated.
▪ And young people need to be educated in new ways to be employable.
▪ He was educated at top school Ampleforth - not Eton as many believe.
▪ I was trying to educate the children and what we have done is actually in science, educated the staff.
▪ In this new economy, smart businesses rely on an educated workforce to thrive.
▪ Only a little more educated than his neighbors, he senses trouble.
▪ They had to be educated on both domestic and international competition.