Vet Meaning
/vɛt/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA veterinarian or veterinary surgeon.
nounA veteran (a former soldier or other member of armed forces).
Sentence Examples
I'm laughing at his naïveté.
My brother is a vet.
My vet told me to feed my dog in the evening.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The company will ____ all job applications carefully before making a decision.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We had to take our dog to the local ____ for his annual check-up to ensure that he remained healthy today.
Word Origin & History
Clipping of veterinarian.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Colin Cameron, a vet who examined the dead animal, said there was "no doubt the kitten would have suffered unnecessarily" before dying."
— 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian:
"“A former soldier, sir. A vet. Theyʼre all vets, a little shellshocked.”"
— 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 73:
"Sir Humphrey Appleby: Nevertheless we do not admit it (the existence of MI6). Not everyone round this table has been vetted (pun). / Jim Hacker: I thought that's something you do to cats (laugh track). / Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes indeed, but not ferrets, Minister (laugh track)."
— 1980 March 10, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Economy Drive”, in Yes, Minister, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Jim Hacker and Humphrey Appleby (Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne):
"41 year-old Thupten from Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture confirmed this threat of punishment. “The people in my area were very discontent when an election was announced. We knew that the candidates selected had already been carefully vetted by higher Chinese officials, and that our ‘voting’ was mere lip-service to Chinese claims of democracy, but we did it anyway."
— 2000 September, “Corrupt and Farcical Elections”, in Racial Discrimination in Tibet, Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, →OCLC, page 116:
"House and Senate Committees are made up of elected legislators who vet the bill and hear from stakeholders and members of the public."
— 2023, “How a Bill Becomes a Law”, in mnnurses.org:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The company will ____ all job applications carefully before making a decision.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We had to take our dog to the local ____ for his annual check-up to ensure that he remained healthy today.