polyversityn.
/ˌpɒlᵻˈvəːsᵻti/, U.S. /ˌpɑləˈvərsədi/ Chiefly British.
An educational institution which combines features of a university and a polytechnic. Sometimes mildly derogatory.
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polyversity1970
1970 Daily Tel. 7 Jan. 2 An amalgamation of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education into vast new ‘polyversities’ was proposed last night by Jack Straw, president of the National Union of Students.
1986 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 13 June 4/1 Namibia's only ‘polyversity’, which is just five years old, is finally beginning to look and feel like the thing that it is supposed to represent.
1997 Guardian 2 Dec. (Higher Educ. section) 5/4 So why does her self-improvement programme not include plans for, say, a modular degree at a Polyversity?
2003 Observer 1 June i. 31/6 They went to Durham when they really wanted to go to Oxbridge Polyversity or whatever you call it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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