(British) The week before the academic aspects of a university start, when students may socialize and undergo induction.
(British) The week before the academic aspects of a university start, when students may socialize and undergo induction.
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(university slang, Canada) A week of activities dedicated to new students at a college or university, held to prepare them for their first academic year.
(UK, informal) A cold or similar illness contracted by new students at a university, caused by gathering people (and the diseases they carry) from a wide variety of places in a confined area, allowing the diseases to spread to those without immunity.
(chiefly, US) In a college or university, the week leading up to final examinations.
(chiefly, US, idiomatic) The week during which new members are required to undergo undignified rites of initiation or gruelling discipline in order to be accepted into a fraternity, sorority, secret society, military group, etc.