单词 | accreditation |
释义 | accreditationn. 1. The action of accrediting; the fact of being accredited; recommendation to credit or (esp. with reference to diplomats and journalists) to official recognition.Earliest in letter of accreditation n. at Phrases. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > accreditation of ambassador(s) credential1648 accreditation1806 accrediting1818 1806 Mem. of R. Cumberland I. 417 Having received my instructions and letters of accreditation from the earl of Hillsborough on the 17th day of April 1780. 1819 Brit. Rev. Aug. 141 The houses of the inhabitants are thrown open to strangers who bring with them the proper accreditation. 1880 Index Executive Documents House of Representatives 1879–80 I. 708 It does seem to me that our commercial relations with England warrant the accreditation of such a minister. 1914 P. F. Martin Maximilian in Mexico xxxi. 395 In view of the delicacy of their position—that of accreditation to an already defeated monarchy..—their best course would have been to attempt conciliation and friendliness with the dominant authorities. 1944 Billboard 8 July 6/4 James Cassidy..leaves soon for the European war front as a war correspondent. He..received notice of his accreditation from the War Department this week. 1988 Engineer 17 Mar. 30 (advt.) Already some 600 industrial laboratories throughout the UK have met the exacting namas requirements for accreditation. 2002 B. Hoey Her Majesty xx. 314 The following year over a thousand reporters and cameramen applied for accreditation to cover the tour made by the Prince and Princess of Wales. 2. Education (originally U.S.). Official certification that a school, course, etc., has met standards established by external regulators; a professional endorsement or qualification of this kind. Also: the process of assessment and certification. ΚΠ 1904 Sioux County (Iowa) Herald 11 Jan. 6/2 (headline) High school keeps accreditation. 1913 School Rev. 21 298 With..the extension of methods of certification and accreditation of schools, these judgements passed by one institution upon another have assumed considerable importance. 1958 Canad. Libr. Assoc. Bull. Apr. 225/1 Accreditation is the certifying of specific institutions as maintaining or surpassing a prescribed standard. 1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 11 Jan. 88 You must be a qualified teacher with an additional accreditation appropriate to the needs of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. 2005 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 5 Sept. c1 The European Board of Veterinary Specialists says that homeopathy is not a valid specialty and threatens to remove the accreditation of any veterinary school that teaches it. Phrases letter of accreditation n. a letter or document which identifies a person as having official recognition or sanction. ΚΠ 1806 [see sense 1]. 1814 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 291 Obtaining my letters of accreditation, etc., I set off at one o'clock in the morning. 1852 33rd Ann. Rep. N.-Y. Inst. for Instr. Deaf & Dumb 1851 85 Having been furnished with letters of accreditation from the Secretary of the Board, to kindred foreign institutions..we embarked on board the new packet ship Germania. 1948 Pacific Stars & Stripes (Tokyo) 21 Apr. 1/1 The envoy presented his letter of accreditation signed by President Harry Truman. 1976 Times 20 Jan. 6/7 He had, as editor, been asked by the Foreign Office to supply a letter of accreditation as cover for ‘young so-and-so going off to Latin America’, but had always refused. 2010 H. Pope Dining with al-Qaeda ii. 16 A friendly editor of the Economist gave me a letter of accreditation, but I was so intimidated by the magazine's grandeur and my inexperience that I didn't actually write anything for it for fifteen more years. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1924 I. E. Newsom Bacillary White Diarrhoea of Chicks 8 In other states some accreditation work has been done. 1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 673/2 Dialysis nursing is now a recognized subspeciality with its own professional society and probable future accreditation boards. 1990 Physiotherapy 76 763/3 A revision of the structured pace to reflect fuller integration into the academic accreditation system. 2008 BBC Good Food Sept. 80/1 Some trawler-caught fish from Scotland are currently undergoing the Marine Stewardship Council accreditation process. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1806 |
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