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词汇 functional illiterate
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Definition of functional illiterate in US English:

functional illiterate

noun
  • A person whose level of ability to read and write is below that needed to do the ordinary tasks required to function normally in society.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As a result, 41 per cent of the functional illiterates were unemployed and probably stood little chance of finding jobs in the future, given the increasing use of technology at the workplace.
    • Hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into research on reading, but we have more functional illiterates than ever before in the history of this nation.
    • There are billions of full illiterates or functional illiterates on the planet.
    • Are you proud that 40 million adult Americans are functional illiterates?
    • Nearly half of the 4.5 million functional illiterates identified in the survey are 55 or older, even though this group only accounts for 29 per cent of the total population;
    • The objective of this project is to create an index that could quantify the number of functional illiterates in the country.
    • The basic skills of functional illiterates do not reach beyond the fourth grade.
    • No longer could Texas afford an educational system that produced a large number of functional illiterates and citizens with limited scientific knowledge, technological know-how, and language skills.
    • Fortunately for us right now, Russia has even more such functional illiterates than we do.
    • It is a national scandal that so many students in urban public schools are functional illiterates.

Definition of functional illiterate in US English:

functional illiterate

noun
  • A person whose level of ability to read and write is below that needed to do the ordinary tasks required to function normally in society.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Fortunately for us right now, Russia has even more such functional illiterates than we do.
    • The basic skills of functional illiterates do not reach beyond the fourth grade.
    • As a result, 41 per cent of the functional illiterates were unemployed and probably stood little chance of finding jobs in the future, given the increasing use of technology at the workplace.
    • There are billions of full illiterates or functional illiterates on the planet.
    • Hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into research on reading, but we have more functional illiterates than ever before in the history of this nation.
    • It is a national scandal that so many students in urban public schools are functional illiterates.
    • Are you proud that 40 million adult Americans are functional illiterates?
    • Nearly half of the 4.5 million functional illiterates identified in the survey are 55 or older, even though this group only accounts for 29 per cent of the total population;
    • No longer could Texas afford an educational system that produced a large number of functional illiterates and citizens with limited scientific knowledge, technological know-how, and language skills.
    • The objective of this project is to create an index that could quantify the number of functional illiterates in the country.
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