Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Involving or representing two or more colleges.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Between colleges; of or pertaining to different colleges in participation: as, an intercollegiate contest or discussion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Existing or carried on between colleges or universities
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or taking place between two or more
colleges .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective used of competition between colleges or universities
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Examples
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The most challenging one was to work, with our president David Boren, in an effort to change the culture of the organization under the banner which we call intercollegiate athletics.
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"It is significant that we are experiencing such tangible events as this in intercollegiate athletics today," BCA Executive Director Floyd Keith said in the statement.
BCA: Virginia-Eastern Michigan game marks diversity milestone Steve Yanda 2010
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They saw coaches 'salaries as "a key contributor to the (fiscal)' arms race 'in intercollegiate athletics "and" the greatest impediment to sustainability, "the Knight Commission noted.
College football coaches see salaries rise in down economy 2009
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Mam, do you know what it takes, the time, the hard work, the dedication to be involved in intercollegiate sports?
Think Progress » “Bush Was Right!” — The New Hit Single Ready to Rock a Generation 2005
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Because of the atypical structure of its undergraduate college system, the University of Chicago, unlike almost all other American universities, permitted graduate students to compete in intercollegiate athletics.
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Before they were called intercollegiate teams, they were clubs, right?
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Others take an intercollegiate approach and allow students from different schools to battle each other.
At Business Schools, Race for Cash Heats Up Emily Maltby 2011
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Stevenson spent $500,000 this year to create an intercollegiate team from scratch, largely as a means to fill the campus with tuition-paying men.
Small colleges find that adding football pays off in a lot of green, and more Daniel de Vise 2010
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Stevenson spent $500,000 this year to create an intercollegiate team from scratch, largely as a means to fill the campus with tuition-paying men.
The new game plan boosting colleges' odds Daniel de Vise 2010
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Tandy was also one of the founders, or “Seven Jewels,” of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the first intercollegiate fraternity for African-Americans.
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