tertiaryter‧tia‧ry /ˈtɜːʃəri $ ˈtɜːrʃieri, -ʃəri/ adjective technical 
Word Origin
Word OriginWORD ORIGINtertiary
ExamplesOrigin:
1500-1600 Latin tertiarius ‘of or containing a third’, from tertius ‘third’EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
word sets- A drug acting on one set of synapses can have secondary and tertiary effects all over the place.
- A possible future is that regions will pass away and districts amalgamate to make contracts for more specialist services - tertiary care.
- As a tertiary intervention, I offered to organise a home help or meals on wheels service if Mrs Allen wished.
- Cirencester tertiary college's principal says he's pleased with this years results.
- Enhance study skills in preparation for tertiary education 3.
- Methyl tertiary butyl ether could work as substitute for lead but it is expensive.
- There are three main types of prevention, known as primary, secondary and tertiary.
- This leads immediately to an estimate of about 360,000 heavily employed trainers needed in addition to school, college and tertiary education staff.
WORD SETS► Numbers
Collocationsadd, verbaddition, nounArabic numeral, nounarithmetic progression, nounbi-, prefixbillion, numbercalculate, verbcalculation, nouncardinal, nouncardinal number, nouncoefficient, nouncommon denominator, nounconstant, nouncube, verbcube root, nounD, noundecimal, noundecimal, adjectivedecimal point, noundemi-, prefixdenominator, noundigit, noundivide, verbdividend, noundivisible, adjectivedivision, noundivisor, noundouble-digit, adjectivedouble figures, nouneight, numbereighteen, numbereighth, adjectiveeighty, numbereleven, numberequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nouneven, adjectiveexponent, nounfactor, nounfactor, verbfactorial, nounfifteen, numberfifth, nounfifty, numberfig., figure, nounfive, numberforty, numberfour, numberfourteen, numberfourth, nounfraction, noungeometric progression, noungross, nounHCF, hundred, numberimproper fraction, nounindivisible, adjectiveinfinity, nouninteger, nounL, nounlogarithm, nounlowest common denominator, nounM, nounmedian, nounmedian, adjectivemillion, numbermultiple, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, noun-nd, suffixnegative, adjectivenine, numbernineteen, numberninety, numberninth, adjectiveNo., nos., nothing, pronounnought, numbernumber, nounnumeral, nounnumerator, nounnumerical, adjectiveO, nounoblique, nounone, numberordinal number, nounpi, nounplot, verbplus, prepositionpoint, nounpositive, adjectiveprime number, nounproduct, nounproper fraction, nounproportion, nounquadr-, prefixquadrillion, numberquadruple, adjectivequotient, noun-rd, suffixroman numeral, nounroot, nounround, adjectivescore, numbersecond, numberserial number, nounset, nounsingle figures, nounsix, numbersixteen, numbersixty, numbersquare, nounsquare, verbsquared, adjectivesquare root, noun-st, suffixsubtract, verbsum, nountake, verbten, numbertenth, adjectivetertiary, adjectivetetra-, prefixthirteen, numberthirty, numberthousand, numberthree, numberthree-quarter, adjectivethreescore, numbertreble, determinertri-, prefixtrillion, numbertwelve, numbertwenty, numbertwice, adverbunit, nounV, nounvulgar fraction, nounwhole number, nounX, nounzero, number
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► care
third in place, degree, or order· A possible future is that regions will pass away and districts amalgamate to make contracts for more specialist services - tertiary care.· The report of the cardiac services review group states that none of London's 14 cardiac tertiary care centres is ideal.
► college· At present there is no provision in legislation which positively prevents the establishment of a Voluntary Aided tertiary college.
► education· This leads immediately to an estimate of about 360,000 heavily employed trainers needed in addition to school, college and tertiary education staff.· First, there seems at present less to complain about in most of our primary schools than in secondary or tertiary education.· Enhance study skills in preparation for tertiary education 3.· The only thing about tertiary education on which everyone agrees is that it is a mess.· It would be aimed not only at those intending to continue to tertiary education but to all pupils.· Few of our parents had reached any form of tertiary education.
► sector· In the tertiary sector, particularly financial services, the development of a single financial market may have important employment consequences.· Agriculture has also provided the expanding industrial and tertiary sectors with their labour force.· Women participate in poorer jobs and in the tertiary sectors, areas which have suffered the most from peripheral capitalist development.