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/ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/ · noun
The action or process of graduating and receiving a diploma for completing a course of study (such as from an educational institution)..
The graduation ball was the students' chance to say goodbye to each other.
After my graduation, I took a year out to travel, then went into an office job.
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"No good, I'm afraid," he confessed before he took it. "A print of this sort is one of the few things that afford no graduation to the sense of touch. No, no"—as he passed his finger-tips over the paper—"a gelatino-chloride surface of mathematical uniformity, Inspector, and nothing more. Now had it been the negative—"
Use graduation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Graduation means The action or process of graduating and receiving a diploma for completing a course of study (such as from an educational institution)..
Common synonyms include gradation, commencement, graduation exercise, commencement exercise.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The graduation ball was the students' chance to say goodbye to each other.
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