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Discover LudwigThe word "certificates" is correct and usable in written English
You could use it to refer to official documents that are awarded to people as recognition of their achievements or qualifications. For example: "I received two certificates for completing a professional development course."
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certificates
noun
Plural of certificate
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She says the UK business sees the equivalent of six full classes gain adult certificates in English and maths every week.
"The circumstance that torn-up current medical certificates – also pertaining to the day of the act – were found, supports, after preliminary examination, the assumption that the deceased hid his illness from his employer and his professional circles".
We now discover that these ministers can also issue general certificates, renewed every six months, which permit mass interception of the kind that GCHQ has been conducting.
Among the certificates issued to GCHQ is a "global" one authorising all its operations, including the trawling of up to 600m phone calls and 39m gigabytes of electronic information a day.
Several universities, including Leicester and Teesside, now offer post-graduate certificates in commissioning.
While you are receiving payments under the policy, you will usually have to provide monthly medical certificates from your doctor as ongoing proof of your ill health.
But for 17,900 Australians the day meant something more than public celebrations and back-yard get-togethers as they received their certificates making them citizens for the first time.
This could include a change to their birth certificates.
In February 1951, the exam successes recorded by the City grammar school magazine (which included a poem in praise of the Attlee government by RSG Hattersley, Lower VI) were: 75 school certificates and 32 higher school certificates.
And that petition, in turn, inspired Ailsa Burkimsher Sadler to start a campaign to get mothers recognised on marriage certificates.
Otherwise, you can buy gift certificates redeemable against any of our courses – it's the voucher you can give and still look thoughtful.
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