educated

adjective ed·u·cat·ed \ ˈe-jə-ˌkā-təd \

|Updated on: 31 Jul 2018

Examples: educated in a Sentence

Definition of educated

1 : having an education; especially : having an education beyond the average

educated speakers

2 a : giving evidence of training or practice : skilled

educated hands

b : befitting one that is educated

educated taste

c : based on some knowledge of fact

an educated guess

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educatedness

noun

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Examples of educated in a Sentence

These companies want an educated work force.
an educated woman with an impressive career

Recent Examples of educated from the Web

For the rest, the NBS must make educated guesses, which will err on the side of continuity.

— The Economist, "China’s statistics are bad. Many criticisms of them are worse," 7 July 2018
As an educated woman, she is quietly needled by the fact that the Canadian government gives her a schedule made of pictures, rather than words, since women in Gilead aren’t allowed to read.

— refinery29.com, "The Handmaid's Tale," 14 June 2018
Less clear is how online voter registration changes the electorate, which across the country is older, wealthier, and more educated than nonvoters.

— jonathan lai, Philly.com, "Online voter registration in Pa., three years in: More than 1 in 5 voters register online," 12 July 2018
Ideal consumerism would be making educated purchases.

— kerry pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, "4 Chic Fashion Brands Doing Things Right, Right Now," 2 July 2018
Women are now more educated than men and are keen to succeed in the workforce, despite entrenched sexism and a huge gender pay gap (the average South Korean woman makes just 63% of the salary of the average man).

— The Economist, "South Korea’s fertility rate is the lowest in the world," 28 June 2018
Like during those first seven months, however, the patients who used the assisted death process last year were older, whiter and more educated than the California population as whole.

— alexei koseff, sacbee, "Assisted death rate nearly doubled in California in 2017," 22 June 2018
Officials recommend that residents constantly stay educated on ways to prevent wildfires from starting.

— kimberly rapanut, azcentral, "What to take away from Arizona's 2018 wildfire season so far," 13 June 2018
The voters who could decide control of Congress tend to be whiter, older and more educated than the rest of the country.

— amber phillips, Washington Post, "Who will decide which party controls the House? Whiter, wealthier Americans.," 17 May 2018

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