open admission

noun

Examples of open admission in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The map that the prime minister used to make the case for this notably omitted the Green Line that separates Israel proper from the West Bank, in what many observers dubbed an open admission of de facto annexation. Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024 Some schools are open admission, meaning all applicants are accepted (i.e., community colleges and some state schools). Leslie Goldman, Parents, 24 June 2024 And these protests ultimately succeeded in the establishment of Africana and Puerto Rican studies departments, the diversification of the faculty, and open admissions at CUNY. TIME, 9 May 2024 In July, the 8-month-old golden retriever was set to be euthanized at Laredo Animal Care Services, an underfunded, overcrowded open admissions shelter in Texas. Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023 Among them: Eliminating the football team, saving almost $2 million, and getting rid of open admissions, which had resulted in hundreds of students in remediation. Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2023 Horizon Science Academies are open admission. Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 15 June 2020 At the same time, overturning it would be an open admission that precedent cannot easily survive a change in the Court’s composition. Noah Feldman, The New York Review of Books, 2 July 2020 Community colleges typically have open admission and are comparatively cheap or even free. Jon Marcus, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of open admission was in 1900

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“Open admission.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open%20admission. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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