| 释义 |
in all but nameExisting in a particular state but not formally recognized as such: these polytechnics had been universities in all but name for many years...- First, the old polytechnics were rebranded as universities - a process of levelling-down that has really meant many old universities becoming polys in all but name.
- The authority to award degrees makes the institution a university in all but name, he said.
- True, it had now rebelled against the mother country and was a pariah state: but it was still recognizably British in all but name.
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