Synonym: academician, donnish, faculty member, pedantic. Similar words: epidemic, decade, chemical, a case in point, incommunicado, demand, dynamic, Islamic. Meaning: [‚ækə'demɪk] 
n. an educator who works at a college or university. adj. 1. associated with academia or an academy 2. hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result 3. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects.
n. an educator who works at a college or university. adj. 1. associated with academia or an academy 2. hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result 3. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects. 
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181. I used to think about an academic career when I was a student.
182. He believes that industrialists have a lot to offer academic institutions in helping them to manage their resources.
183. But he had a mild, good-humoured, articulate side, verging on the academic, abjuring the sensational.
184. Criticism and debate are to be welcomed, however, and should not be confined to academic circles.
185. Rivers played a fundamental role in the establishment of both experimental psychology and social anthropology as academic disciplines in Great Britain.
186. His academic background includes the study of law at Harvard.
187. Near facilitates the rapid transfer of information about attacks on academics and academic freedom on a global basis.
188. We have described two uses of the survey method which originated outside academic circles.
189. The first provides a more general form of academic course than the specialized academic degrees described above.
190. There simply is no replacement for a rigorous, carefully planned sequence of academic course work.
191. The Delegates meet at intervals to determine policy,(Sentencedict.com) in particular publishing policy in the academic field.
192. The article illustrates at least three important issues confronting many academic institutions.
193. They direct and coordinate activities of deans of individual colleges and chairpersons of academic departments.
194. My literary and academic background was something, I often felt, I was expected to apologise for.
195. Only in their most elementary courses do other academic fields offer even a partial parallel.
196. It follows that the academic community and research are directly interrelated.
197. The serious charge that academic freedom was violated on his campus has yet to be addressed.
198. He began his academic career as a physiologist and pharmacologist.
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199. High school students can select from a variety of applied academic courses in addition to a more traditional college-preparatory curriculum.
200. Such staff usually have a close relationship with the academic departments.
201. Attention is turned away from the academic field rather than inward.
202. His is the remarkable story of a young man with hardly any academic ability.
203. Postgraduate and post-experience diplomas and certificates are, in general, designed for students with a wider range of academic backgrounds and experience.
204. The students were chosen because of their strong leadership potential, academic achievement and involvement in extracurricular activities.
205. Mr. Sayeed Does my hon. Friend agree that assessing ability only in terms of academic achievement sells young people short?
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