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How do you use Tertiary in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like third or ordinal, plus the exact meaning.

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Tertiary in a sentence

Tertiary meaning

  1. Of third rank or order; subsequent.
  2. Possessing some quality in the third degree; especially having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals.
  3. Of quills: growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial.

Synonyms of Tertiary

third 3rd ordinal tertiary period period geological period

Using Tertiary

  • The main meaning on this page is: Of third rank or order; subsequent. | Possessing some quality in the third degree; especially having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals. | Of quills: growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial.
  • Useful related words include: third, 3rd, ordinal, tertiary period.
  • In the example corpus, tertiary often appears in combinations such as: tertiary education, tertiary institutions, and tertiary.

Context around Tertiary

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Tertiary

  • In this selection, "tertiary" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, owned, late, national, institutions, education and qualifications stand out and add context to how "tertiary" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include administrators of tertiary institutions or and and other tertiary institutions act. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "tertiary" sits close to words such as auditorium, calf and cfo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with tertiary

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

But all of that is secondary, tertiary. (7 words)

Enhancing prospects for entering tertiary education and gaining employment. (9 words)

According to the National Tertiary Education Industry Union, business management graduates can expect to be repaying debt for 44 years. (20 words)

Governor Uba Sani, who announced the tuition fees reduction at a news conference on Monday, said the move is in response to an outcry over fees charged by tertiary institutions in the state and its effect on school enrolment and retention. (41 words)

And that’s another reason that the Opposition should’ve been dancing in the aisles, since it was Desmond Hoyte who’d introduced tuition – after the PNC’s founder-leader Burnham had continued Jagan’s policy of free tertiary education! (40 words)

The aim should be to elect MPs without post-high school or tertiary education qualifications, or tertiary qualifications not acquired before age 25, and those who have worked in the workforce outside of politics. (34 words)

And that’s another reason that the Opposition should’ve been dancing in the aisles, since it was Desmond Hoyte who’d introduced tuition – after the PNC’s founder-leader Burnham had continued Jagan’s policy of free tertiary education! (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

The aim should be to elect MPs without post-high school or tertiary education qualifications, or tertiary qualifications not acquired before age 25, and those who have worked in the workforce outside of politics.

The increase of fire activity in the late Tertiary Historically, the Cenozoic has been divided up into the Quaternary and Tertiary sub-eras, as well as the Neogene and Paleogene periods.

The mixture produced, however, is not a statistical mixture: Secondary and tertiary hydrogen atoms are preferentially replaced due to the greater stability of secondary and tertiary free-radicals.

A business expert, Gideon Osi, has called on the government at all levels to make entrepreneurial studies compulsory in the academic curriculum of tertiary institutions in the country.

According to the National Tertiary Education Industry Union, business management graduates can expect to be repaying debt for 44 years.

According to the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act 2006 as amended, academic heads of departments, deans and directors should be elected and must be at the rank of Senior Lecturer and above.

All school heads, head teachers, Administrators of Tertiary institutions or any other person chosen as a representative of the school have been asked to embrace this opportunity.

Almost half of all primary, secondary and tertiary roads were also damaged or destroyed, and more than half a million people were living without a home due to the conflict.

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A mother and her son have embarked on the exciting journey of undertaking tertiary studies at the Fiji National University (FNU).

And that’s another reason that the Opposition should’ve been dancing in the aisles, since it was Desmond Hoyte who’d introduced tuition – after the PNC’s founder-leader Burnham had continued Jagan’s policy of free tertiary education!

But all of that is secondary, tertiary.

Caruana said people who had a tertiary level of education earned more, and the difference in pay amounts could reach more than €1.5 million in 40 years.

Carvallo foresaw a favorable dynamic in the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors of the economy, with a strong recovery on the radar for livestock.

Enhancing prospects for entering tertiary education and gaining employment.

Furthermore, the policy meeting, among other things, would decide the acceptable minimum admissible score to be applied in all admissions to be undertaken by all tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

Governor Uba Sani, who announced the tuition fees reduction at a news conference on Monday, said the move is in response to an outcry over fees charged by tertiary institutions in the state and its effect on school enrolment and retention.

However, Wike has been accused of owing teachers of staff schools of the state-owned tertiary institution for seven years.

In his manifesto, Folarin stated that state-owned tertiary institutions would be requisitioned as global centres of academic excellence through massive infrastructural development, third-party resource mobilisation and international collaborations.

Judge Chua found this figure extravagant for a 22-year-old student in tertiary education and said the explanations were "unconvincing attempts to inflate the figure sought".

Kapoor has no choice but to overcompensate by perfecting tertiary skills; the dance classes and gym is the equivalent of an athlete spending extra time on the track.

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Common combinations with tertiary

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "tertiary" in a sentence?
An example: "The aim should be to elect MPs without post-high school or tertiary education qualifications, or tertiary qualifications not acquired before age 25, and those who have worked in the workforce outside of politics." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "tertiary" from authentic English texts.
What does "tertiary" mean?
Tertiary means: Of third rank or order; subsequent.
What are synonyms of "tertiary"?
Common synonyms of "tertiary" include: third, 3rd, ordinal, tertiary period, period, geological period.
How many example sentences with "tertiary" are there?
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