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cram

(krăm)

v. crammed, cram·ming, crams

v.tr.

1. To force, press, or squeeze (something) into an insufficient or barely sufficient space; stuff.

a. To feed a large amount of food to (an animal).

b. To fill (oneself or one's stomach, for example) with food.

v.intr.

1. To move into and fully occupy a space: The students crammed into the tiny classroom.

2. To study hastily for an impending examination: was up all night cramming for the history midterm.

Hasty study for an imminent examination.

[Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian; see ger- in Indo-European roots.]

cram′mer n.

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crammer

(ˈkræmə)

(Education) a person or school that prepares pupils for an examination, esp pupils who have already failed that examination

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Noun	1.	crammer - a student who crams educatee, pupil, student - a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
	2.	crammer - a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations private instructor, tutor, coach - a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)
	3.	crammer - a special school where students are crammed school - an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900"
	4.	crammer - a textbook designed for cramming school text, schoolbook, text edition, textbook, text - a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"

Translations

crammer

[ˈkræməʳ] N (Scol) (= pupil) → empollón/ona m/f; (= teacher) → profesor(a) m/f (que prepara rapidísimamente a sus alumnos para los exámenes)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

crammer

[ˈkræmə^r] n (British) (= school) → boîte f à bac

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

crammer

n (= tutor) → Einpauker m; (= student) → Büffler(in) m(f) (inf); (= book) → Paukbuch nt; (= school) → Paukschule f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

crammer

[ˈkræməʳ] n (school) → istituto che prepara agli esami; (tutor) → insegnante m/f che cura la preparazione agli esami

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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"My good boys," exclaimed the crammer, "will one of you be kind enough to tell me what you've been doing, and what these gentlemen have been doing for you?

"It wasn't like that boy to run either way," said the crammer, cocking a clear blue eye on me.

Until now the crammer had the centre of the stage, but at this point Raffles usurped a place which was always his at will.

"Well?" said the crammer, relieving me of his eyes at last.

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Of course all the students in the crammer's biology class, to which my brother went that day, were intensely interested, but there were no signs of any unusual excitement in the streets.

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Then would he keep one eye upon a coach or crammer from the Circumlocution Office sitting below the bar, and smash the honourable gentleman with the Circumlocution Office account of this matter.

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The world of classical music has some inspiration for last-minute crammers.

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I think 98% of the position holders are crammers. In this way the real talent is being oppressed.

Increasing Alarm among the Students

We're all crammers and, sometimes, what we want is a place where we can buy everything-before we even know they have the perfect gifts.

SM gift guide for the last-minute shopper

"We don't want crammers and we don't want grammars; we want higher standards, driven by professionals at the vanguard of our system."

'We need to raise our game in the way teacher training is delivered'

Strachan observes that Clausewitz's "On War contains many references to the need for principles and system, but never delivers them in a way designed to be learnt by the parrots of military crammers and spoon-fed examinees" (p.

Strategy as a battleground

The examination pattern currently brings best crammers' into the lime light and not the innovators.