Cohort

Word COHORT
Character 6
Hyphenation co hort
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Cohort"

What do we mean by cohort?

A group or band of people. noun

A companion or associate. noun

A generational group as defined in demographics, statistics, or market research. noun

One of the 10 divisions of a Roman legion, consisting of 300 to 600 men. noun

A group of soldiers. noun

In Roman antiquity, an infantry division of the legion, instituted as a regular body by Marius, though the name was used before his time with a less definite Signification. noun

Hence A band or body of warriors in general. noun

In some systems of botanical and zoölogical classification, a large group of no definitely fixed grade. noun

A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion. noun

Any band or body of warriors. noun

A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class. noun

A group of people supporting the same thing or person. noun

A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic. noun

Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men. noun

An accomplice; abettor; associate. noun

Any band or body of warriors. noun

A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class. noun

A colleague. noun

A group of people supporting the same thing or person.

A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.

Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.

An accomplice; abettor; associate.

Any band or body of warriors.

A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.

A colleague.

A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Cohort

The word "cohort" in example sentences

Specifically, when you have cases in which one cohort quite blatantly loots the local treasury and then another cohort is asked to make up for the shortfall, it is is natural for the second cohort to object. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But if higher marriage rates among women in the cohort is a fact, it seems to be a fact that should get a lot of attention. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This cohort is as Republican as Republican gets: no group is more conservative on moral values, economic issues, or foreign policy. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We need what we call cohort training, where units train together, you know, as they would respond to an event. ❋ Unknown (2003)

We also get a little more granular in what we call our cohort retention rate, which is the individual retention rate of each new class of new students would come in, that was also down slightly Karl, but there was something on our remedial classes, our developmental classes wasn't there.

We also get a little more granular in what we call our cohort retention rate, which is the individual retention rate of each new class of new students that come in.

Marci Bonham chose the global executive M.B.A. program at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business because 60% of the cohort is non-American. ❋ Joe Walker (2010)

Once again cohort studies (the same kind of potentially biased research that led to the conclusion that flu vaccine cuts mortality by 50 percent) are behind these claims. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To get a rough idea of whether these improvements were real – or were, at least partially, a result of the change in cohort demographics (the shift was even stronger among NAEP test-takers) – we can check the changes in average scores for different subgroups. ❋ Valerie Strauss (2010)

Climate and population density induce long-term cohort variation in a northern ungulate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The former was not published until after a newspaper leak in 1997; the latter was a well-designed, long-term cohort study of a population of children with assigned thyroid doses, which was not expected to yield results for several decades. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In a twisting case that takes him from Shanghai, all the way to the U.S., reuniting him with his previous cohort from the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2006)

At the end of 2004, an international team pooled the data from nine long-term cohort studies in order to tease out whether vitamin E along with vitamin C and other antioxidants had an impact on heart disease. ❋ M.D. Walter C. Willett (2005)

Those goons she calls her cohort broke my equipment, stuffed me back into my shuttle, and pointed their guns at me until I took off. ❋ L.A Graf (2000)

This usage is so common that the unqualified term cohort may generally be assumed to refer to birth cohorts. ❋ Douglas L. Anderton (1997)

More information: Method of attempted suicide as predictor of subsequent successful suicide: national long term cohort study, Runeson B, Tidemalm D, Dahlin M, Lichtenstein P, ❋ Unknown (2010)

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