ADJECTIVE
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(of persons, e.g.) having gained full status
sees itself as a fully fledged rival party
by the age of seventeen I was a full-fledged atheist
a full-fledged lawyer - (of a bird) having reached full development with fully grown adult plumage; ready to fly
How To Use full-fledged In A Sentence
- Al-Jazeera has emerged as a full-fledged political actor because it reflects and articulates popular sentiment. In post-Mubarak Egypt, the rebirth of the Arab world
- Hence, war - limited or full-fledged - as an option must be ruled out at least for the present.
- Caffey's Alberta is less a full-fledged personality than an archetype.
- That new program, Transformers Prime, bowed last fall as a five-part miniseries, but now returns as a full-fledged series this Friday, Feb. 11, at 6:30/5:30c on The Hub, the new kids channel formed by Hasbro and Discovery Communications. Transformers Primed for an Animated Comeback
- The long-term plan of the bank is to convert such offices into full-fledged branches or subsidiaries.
- Well, I'm going to steer clear of the predictions for full-fledged 'virtual reality' - I think those are probably way too far off to be realistic, especially as they were suggested in the 1980s and we've not gotten *especially* closer. Gaze into your Crystal Ball
- a full-fledged lawyer
- So while just trying to tidy up a bit, I ended up doing a full-fledged cleaning ... well of at least a corner of my scraproom .... I love a clean scraproom!
- Local music in Nagaland is fast becoming a full-fledged industry thanks to the efforts of music lovers in the state.
- Few of us are comfortable with confrontations because they frequently lead to full-fledged blow-ups.
