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say it: uh-kred-uh-TAY-shuhn
accreditation is a noun meaning "the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to educational institution that maintains suitable standards)". It carries one recorded sense.
the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to educational institution that maintains suitable standards)
“a commission is responsible for the accreditation of medical schools”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for accreditation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.