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# tertiary

adjective

«tertiary» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

77 uses in 45 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as an adjective in 75 of 77. By the class of the article: country 20, city 14, university 5, agglomeration 3. Most often with: «education», «institution», «secondary», «university», «school».

### Examples

- The tertiary service sector is the city's largest, employing about 531,670 people. — [Accra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accra), sentence 81 («wiki:Accra:81»)
- Antigua and Barbuda has several tertiary institutions, including a full campus of the University of the West Indies at Five Islands and the Antigua and Barbuda College of Advanced Studies based primarily in Golden Grove. — [Antigua and Barbuda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua_and_Barbuda), sentence 229 («wiki:Antigua\_and\_Barbuda:229»)
- Australia and New Zealand tertiary institutions typically confer BFA degrees after three years of full-time study. — [Bachelor of Fine Arts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Fine_Arts), sentence 8 («wiki:Bachelor\_of\_Fine\_Arts:8»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Accra»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accra), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Antigua and Barbuda»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua_and_Barbuda), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Bachelor of Fine Arts»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Fine_Arts), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.