Ofstedn.
/ˈɒfstɛd/, U.S. /ˈɔfˌstɛd/, /ˈɑfˌstɛd/ The Office of Standards in Education, a non-ministerial government department set up in 1992 to inspect and advise upon the British state education system and (to a limited degree) the private sector.
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1992 Evening Standard 8 Sept. (Late Prices Extra ed.) 6/1 Ofsted..is responsible for recruiting, training and monitoring the independent [schools] inspectors now being recruited.
1996 Daily Tel. 19 Jan. 5/2 The Ofsted inspectors judged it [sc. a local school] feeble in science and maths, though they did praise its spirit and the way it taught the other two Rs.
2001 Observer 18 Mar. (Britain Uncovered Suppl.) 58/3 Three decades later every pupil in the same school was made to feel a failure thanks to Ofsted, which in 1998 paraded Kingsdale as a failing school.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1992- to knock seven kinds of —— out of a person
- to knock sideways
- to knock some sense into
- to knock some sense into a etc
- to knock some sense into a organization
- to knock some sense into a person
- to knock someone for a goal
- to knock someone for six
- to knock something out of the park
- to knock spots off
- to knock the ball out of the park
- to knock the balls about
- to knock the bottom out of
- to knock the end in or off
- to knock the hindsight out or off
- to knock the nonsense, etc, out of
- to knock the socks off
- to knock the soul bolts
- to knock the spots off
- to knock the starch out of
- to knock the stuffing out of
- to knock to pieces
- to knock together
- to knock under
- to knock under board, under table