commencement exercise

What does commencement exercise mean?

commencement exercise means "an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred".

What is another word for commencement exercise?

Close synonyms include commencement, commencement ceremony, graduation, graduation exercise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is commencement exercise a common word?

commencement exercise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for commencement exercise come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.