cohort
IPA: kˈoʊhɔrt
noun
- A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
- (statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.
- (historical, Ancient Rome, military) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 or 600 men (equalling about six centuries).
- An accomplice; abettor; associate.
- Any band or body of warriors.
- (taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
- A colleague.
- A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program.
- (fandom slang) A fan of American author Colleen Hoover (born 1979).
verb
- To associate with such a group
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Examples of "cohort" in Sentences
- The necromancer was one of Carmilla's cohorts.
- He cites the case of the twins, hardly a cohort.
- The Cohort Model works by breaking the word down.
- The first cohorts of the clothing trade had aged.
- The Class of 2008 was the last cohort to sit the A Level exams.
- He retired in 2001 as the last active member of the famous cohort.
- All the children in a given school year are vaccinated as a cohort.
- Livy describes them as a Royal Cohort in the army of Antiochus the Great.
- I never said that the Azalis, as a cohort, followed the laws of the Bayan.
- I suspect at least one of the audience members is a cohort of the performer.
- We need what we call cohort training, where units train together, you know, as they would respond to an event.
- But if higher marriage rates among women in the cohort is a fact, it seems to be a fact that should get a lot of attention.
- This cohort is as Republican as Republican gets: no group is more conservative on moral values, economic issues, or foreign policy.
- Marci Bonham chose the global executive M.B.A. program at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business because 60% of the cohort is non-American.
- We also get a little more granular in what we call our cohort retention rate, which is the individual retention rate of each new class of new students that come in.
- Once again cohort studies (the same kind of potentially biased research that led to the conclusion that flu vaccine cuts mortality by 50 percent) are behind these claims.
- Specifically, when you have cases in which one cohort quite blatantly loots the local treasury and then another cohort is asked to make up for the shortfall, it is is natural for the second cohort to object.
- We also get a little more granular in what we call our cohort retention rate, which is the individual retention rate of each new class of new students would come in, that was also down slightly Karl, but there was something on our remedial classes, our developmental classes wasn't there.