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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
graduated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
pension
▪ The original Conservative proposal had been to unload all secondary or graduated pensions on to the private sector.
▪ You can only get a graduated pension based on your own personal contributions.
▪ In 1959 the Conservatives introduced a very limited graduated pension scheme.
▪ Anyone over 18 and earning more than £9 a week at that time will probably be entitled to a small graduated pension.
▪ Known as the Boyd-Carpenter scheme, employees made graduated contributions towards a graduated pension.
▪ She may also get half of any of his graduated pension.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
graduated rates of income tax
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In setting the final rates of conversion, a distinction was made between graduated levels of personal savings and assets and liabilities.
▪ Some kind of graduated assessment or testing was a feature of 14 of the schemes.
▪ The graduated scheme gave worse value to women than to men, on the grounds that we retire earlier and live longer.
▪ This may be no more than a judgement of which line on a graduated scale a movable needle is nearest to.
▪ Two main types were developed, depending on whether water flowed out of or into a graduated vessel.
▪ You can only get a graduated pension based on your own personal contributions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graduated

Graduate \Grad"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graduatedp. pr. & vb. n. Graduating.] [Cf. F. graduer. See Graduate, n., Grade.]

  1. To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.

  2. To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College.

  3. To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven.

    Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts.
    --Browne.

  4. (Chem.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

    Graduating engine, a dividing engine. See Dividing engine, under Dividing.

Graduated

Graduated \Grad"u*a"ted\, a.

  1. Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.

  3. Having visible marks and numbers at vertical intervals, permitting one to estimate the quantitity of material contained; -- of vessels, most commonly those used in laboratories for containing liquids. See graduated cylinder, etc., below.

    Graduated cylinder, Graduated flask, Graduated tube, Graduated bottle, Graduated cap, Graduated glass a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels.

    Graduated spring (Railroads), a combination of metallic and rubber springs.

Wiktionary
graduated
  1. 1 (context obsolete English) In steps. 2 Having a university degree; having completed training. 3 Marked with graduations. 4 Arranged by grade, level, degree. 5 (context taxation English) Increasing in rate with the taxable base. 6 (context ornithology English) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle. v

  2. (en-past of: graduate)

WordNet
graduated
  1. adj. increasing as the amount taxed increases [syn: proportional]

  2. marked with or divided into degrees; "a calibrated thermometer" [syn: calibrated]

  3. decreasing as the amount taxed increases

  4. slowly and smoothly [syn: gradational, gradatory]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "graduated".

Breeders who had recently left their herds, not to mention all those who had graduated to adulthood before them.

Chapter VII Instinct Instincts comparable with habits, but different in their origin -- Instincts graduated -- Aphides and ants -- Instincts variable -- Domestic instincts, their origin -- Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees -- Slave-making ants -- Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct - - Difficulties on the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts -- Neuter or sterile insects -- Summary.

Hampstead, what the disaffection of a clergy would amount to, gaping after this graduated bounty of the Crown, and whether Ignatius Loyala himself, if he were a living blockhead instead of a dead saint, could withstand the temptation of bouncing from 100 pounds a year at Sligo, to 300 pounds in Tipperary?

Yeppha putting designs in subtly graduated colors on the screen and Cha Thrat telling it what she saw or did not see.

It is cooled, transferred to a graduated flask, and diluted with water to 200 c.

The residue is taken up with hydrochloric acid, cooled, transferred to a graduated flask, and diluted to the mark.

A retroactive statute imposing a graduated tax at rates different from those in the general income tax law, on dividends received in a prior year which were deductible from gross income under the law in effect when they were received, is not obnoxious to the equal protection clause.

Born on Christmas Day, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama, Gayler graduated from the Naval Academy and spent the better part of his career as a fighter pilot.

Lenny had graduated from high school and had gone directly into the family business, Stankovik and Sons, Plumbing and Heating.

Started off as helper to Loz and the rest of the cooks, then graduated to rear gunner.

Song of Change had been sung, the newly graduated Breeders had been congratulated by the parents, children, Protectors, and Nurturers, and the herd had split back up into individual family groups for perhaps their last private time together before the Breeders struck off on their own.

He graduated from Ilium High School in the upper third of his class, and attended night sessions at the Ilium School of Optometry for one semester before being drafted for military service in the Second World War.

The Bishop was to have been present to give a prayer--Joan had graduated at De Pauw when he was President there--but old St.

He had chosen a pair of dolls, one Rac, one Remaker, and a wooden Worldtree with a set of brightly painted graduated rings.

Nezzie gave Ayla a warm hug, and then a necklace of matched and graduated spiral shells, each one separated by carefully sawed small sections of the hard hollow leg bones of arctic fox and, suspended as a pendant in front, a large canine tooth of a cave lion.