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  • adjective Having the characteristics of multiple grades of a product (especially of a lubricating oil)

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Examples

  • It has filters, film stocks, multigrade paper -- the works.

    On Assignment: Open Shade Opera Singer 2009

  • Why not take ordinary language at its word, and let causation go multigrade?

    The Metaphysics of Causation Schaffer, Jonathan 2007

  • Teachers were forced to work under very trying circumstances, travel long distances and teach multigrade classes, often without the benefit of adequate learning support materials or regular visits from teacher support professionals, he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • * Use multigrade oil in your engine because it will reduce drag.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Australian funding will provide supplementary and adapted curricula for multigrade teaching (teaching several grades in a single classroom), teaching of locally relevant skills to minority children, support for teachers and principals, training of teacher educators, and the recruitment and training of ethnic minority teachers.

    Australia Funds Education in Laos 1998

  • We are aware of the many little poor schools, 630 boys in multigrade classrooms in the country.

    CASTRO SPEECH, RESOLUTION CLOSE EDUCATION CONGRE 1971

  • The dissident group countered by accusing Garvey of improperly managing the SBQ business since he took over the multigrade bar company in 1996.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • It was also used in some of the first cancer treatment research; and was the birthplace of multigrade motor oil and the isotopes used for cardiac stress tests.

    The Augusta Chronicle 2010

  • Harvey liked the family atmosphere of the multigrade classroom.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2009

  • Harvey liked the family atmosphere of the multigrade classroom.

    Pat Dollard | Young Americans 2009

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