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Oxbridge

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1. Oxbridge - Noun

2. Oxbridge - Adjective

3. Oxbridge - Proper noun

Meaning

general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University)

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I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea. Benoît Mandelbrot

An attempt was made in the 1870s to introduce academic rowing after the Oxbridge model. Source: Internet

Multimillionaire – or even millionaire – managers do not, as a rule, live or behave like Bielsa but, as perhaps befits the owner of one of the game’s sharpest tactical brains, the Argentinian is much more eccentric Oxbridge don than Harry Redknapp clone. Source: Internet

Entrance is extremely competitive and some schools promote themselves based on their achievement of Oxbridge offers. Source: Internet

"From Amateur to Professional: The Case of the Oxbridge Historians." Source: Internet

In 1998 he was appointed as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, becoming the first Asian head of an Oxbridge college. citation In January 2004, Sen returned to Harvard. Source: Internet

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