investment-grade
PRODUCTION
one of the levels of quality given to a particular product or substance :
March futures on commercial grade coffee closed at $1.04 per pound Friday.
high/low gradeTechnicians carefully loaded new fuel rods of high grade uranium into the cooling water.
aircraft/human/weapons, etc. gradeThe scooters are made from aircraft grade aluminium alloy and weigh just 2.76kg.
HR
a level or division within an organization or system:
The administrative grade, recruited from top-quality university graduates, prepares policy advice for ministers.
a pay/salary grade
 make the grade
to be as good as expected or as good as is necessary:
Many of the online shops simply failed to make the grade.
grade
verb[ T ]
 PRODUCTION, HRuk /ɡreɪd/us
to judge the quality of a product, substance, or organization, or the performance of an employee:
The fibre is graded and packed into bales for transport to factories for spinning, dying, and milling.
be graded on sthHe said that principals and superintendents would be graded on leadership and school performance.
be graded for sthInside the world's largest covered building, the flowers are graded for quality and catalogued by computer.

Examples of grade

grade
Considering the high grade of preservation, the mineral formation process was probably a relatively quick event.
From each of these four programs and for each grade, three reading texts were selected at random.
Taken together, throwing away terms of high enough grade and the removal of terms with even l after summation removes a high proportion of commutators.
The authors' grading scheme is telling in this respect.
Sandalwood is graded into a number of classes which reflect different quality of scented heartwood and to distinguish between dried heartwood and sapwood timber.
The average for each grade was a negative value; however, the fourth and sixth graders' averages tended to approach zero.
Senior staff were headhunted by other companies, whilst there was a great turnover in staff amongst the labouring grades.
However, subscale values did not significantly differ according to country of qualification, clinical speciality, number of years worked in psychiatry, place of work, clinical grade.
Embracing the idea that representations may be graded opens up many interesting conceptual possibilities.
At the first grade level, reading instruction does not follow the phonics method, nor does it entail systematic instruction in phonemic awareness.
At what rate do learners learn and retain new vocabulary from reading a graded reader?
Specifically, for the moderate declining group, we found evidence that grade retention aggravated classroom physical aggression, but only when it occurred prior to age 13.
The joke is lost on those for whom public schools are state schools, with not standards but grades.
Since the robot is only expected to have to negotiate small grades, it only incorporates suspension systems at the two lateral wheels.
Teacher-rated academic per formance in sixth grade was not predictive of discordant cases in any of the three trajectory classes.
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Collocations withgrade

grade

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cumulative grade point average
A minimum cumulativegrade point average of 3.5 is required.
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