an ordinary bachelor's degree conferred without honors
Also called: poll, poll degree
Word origin
[1910–15]This word is first recorded in the period 1910–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: carbon cycle, homeroom, payoff, radio, zing
Examples of 'pass degree' in a sentence
pass degree
It had a laboratory and, after day release and night classes, he got the equivalent of a pass degree in chemistry.