(v. i.) Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
(v. t. & i.) To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.
(v. t. & i.) To furnish or adorn with any soft covering.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
(2) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
(3) I knew absolutely nothing about what to expect when I entered the cinema but within 10 minutes I was a fully fledged convert.
(4) The downgrading in late 2013 of what had been a fully fledged A&E unit at Chase Farm to an urgent care centre, despite a huge campaign of opposition, led to a 20% increase in the number of sick people seeking treatment at the North Middlesex.
(5) Furthermore, feminism requires new forms of social interaction that embody the esthetical space women need to experience life as full-fledged citizens.
(6) On the Colville River in northwestern Alaska, the last young falcons will fledge in 1975 and the remaining adult population will disappear by 1980 unless the present rate of reproductive failure is drastically and quickly reversed.
(7) On the other hand the Scots voted by a two to one majority and were rewarded with a fully-fledged parliament.
(8) Fortunately for her and her readers, this voice arrived fully fledged, and proved to be remarkably reliable.
(9) This year, heading into 2016, they are becoming fully fledged substitutes for campaigns, taking over functions including opposition research, polling and even knocking on doors.
(10) Breeding success was measured as a function of eggs hatched and chicks fledged.
(11) A fledging ratio is used to support the hypothesis that maternal prezygotic exposure affects the viability of embryos and chicks.
(12) The author concludes that C-L psychiatry has achieved the status of a full-fledged subspecialty of psychiatry, one whose main contribution has been to draw attention of clinicians and researchers to psychosocial aspects of physical illness, and to the psychiatric complications of such illness and of the medical and surgical therapies.
(13) Other Hamas officials said only a fully fledged deal to end hostilities would be accepted.
(14) The armistice never became a fully-fledged peace agreement and therefore North and South Korea technically remain at war.
(15) Full-fledged allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) has been estimated to occur in 10% of patients with CF.
(16) The most significant difference from last year's London event is that instead of a tottering and discredited transitional regime, Somalia now has a fully fledged government, led by Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
(17) Kindle Fire, the fully fledged tablet computer Amazon first released in 2011, sold 9m units last year.
(18) Homelessness, that most visceral signifier of hard times, is on the rise and shaping up to be not merely another policy embarrassment for the coalition, but a fully fledged social crisis.
(19) Nursing is the agent of change for moving health care from a cottage industry to a full-fledged business enterprise--a business with compassion, empathy, and quality.
(20) In a speech in Manchester, Trevor Phillips, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality, will warn against the country "sleep-walking" into a "New Orleans-style" quagmire of "fully fledged ghettoes".