Collocations withmajor

These are words often used in combination withmajor.

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academic major
A student who successfully completes the courses prescribed in an academic major qualifies for an undergraduate degree.
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education major
The advanced course education major ws set up in 1994.
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engineering major
Many engineering major courses have laboratory sections, and the students must do well in both exams and experiments to get credit.
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major association
Left hemisphere dissected to reveal major association tracts including those implicated in the social brain.
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pectoralis major
Additionally, the upper type lesion affects the function of the sternocostal portion of the pectoralis major muscle, which accounts for the appearance of forward flexion of the shoulder.
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senior major
You promote the senior major to the colonel, and the senior captain becomes a major, and so on—it goes right down to the lower commissioned ranks.
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