英和和英

語源

intermediate + certificate

名詞

Intermediate Certificate (plural Intermediate Certificates)

1. (Ireland, historical) A certificate awarded to Irish students who passed the state examinations at the end of the third or fourth year of a voluntary secondary school or boarding school.
2. (Australia, historical) A certificate awarded to students who successfully completed three years of high school.
   • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 57:

     ‘I’m gonna get a job as soon as I get my Intermediate Certificate at High School.’

使用する際の注意点

In regular speech and writing the term Inter Cert is almost always preferred even in formal registers.

使用する際の注意点

• In Ireland, the Intermediate Certificate was completely abolished in place of the Junior Certificate in 1992. People who were in secondary school before 1992 may still refer to the Junior Certificate as the Intermediate Certificate.
• In Australia, the Intermediate Certificate was abolished in 1965.

同意語

• Inter Cert

関連する語

• Leaving Certificate
• Junior Certificate