"full ride" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "full rides",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "full ride (plural full rides)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Applying Amateurism in the Global Sports Arena, page 22",
          "text": "The Ivy Group and the Big Ten were the most notable conferences to initially avoid full ride scholarships.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, James E. Davis, 2049, page 233",
          "text": "If you showed half the interest in school as most of the kids, you could get a full ride to any college in the country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kaira Rouda, All The Difference, page 121",
          "text": "For some reason, his college counselor saw talent in Ron that he didn't see himself, and when the SAT scores came out, Ron was offered a full ride to Louisiana State.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ron Perlman, Easy Street (the Hard Way): A Memoir, page 52",
          "text": "But because we didn't have any money, the notion of applying to a college that specialized in theater— by that time the die was fully cast—seemed a waste of time unless I was going to get a full ride.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A scholarship that covers all tuition, and in some cases fees or other educational and living expenses as well."
      ],
      "id": "en-full_ride-en-noun-oaIEJKPO",
      "links": [
        [
          "scholarship",
          "scholarship"
        ],
        [
          "tuition",
          "tuition"
        ],
        [
          "fees",
          "fees"
        ],
        [
          "educational",
          "educational"
        ],
        [
          "living",
          "living"
        ],
        [
          "expense",
          "expense"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, New Monologues for Mature Actors, page 65",
          "text": "You had better get off your ass and be my husband because I signed on for the full ride.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Charles H. Staples, Cancer Ain't Nothing But a Pimple Ta God, page 45",
          "text": "Only this time, I knew I was going for the full ride. The only thing was that I didn't know was what kind of ride I was going on.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Thomas R. Lindlof, Bryan C. Taylor, Qualitative Communication Research Methods, page xii",
          "text": "Advanced readers may, as a result, wish to read selectively, but we believe that novices will benefit from taking the full ride.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A total and complete experience of something."
      ],
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          "total"
        ],
        [
          "complete",
          "complete"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see full, ride."
      ],
      "id": "en-full_ride-en-noun-~tVUMII1",
      "links": [
        [
          "full",
          "full#English"
        ],
        [
          "ride",
          "ride#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "full ride"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "full rides",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "full ride (plural full rides)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Applying Amateurism in the Global Sports Arena, page 22",
          "text": "The Ivy Group and the Big Ten were the most notable conferences to initially avoid full ride scholarships.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, James E. Davis, 2049, page 233",
          "text": "If you showed half the interest in school as most of the kids, you could get a full ride to any college in the country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kaira Rouda, All The Difference, page 121",
          "text": "For some reason, his college counselor saw talent in Ron that he didn't see himself, and when the SAT scores came out, Ron was offered a full ride to Louisiana State.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ron Perlman, Easy Street (the Hard Way): A Memoir, page 52",
          "text": "But because we didn't have any money, the notion of applying to a college that specialized in theater— by that time the die was fully cast—seemed a waste of time unless I was going to get a full ride.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A scholarship that covers all tuition, and in some cases fees or other educational and living expenses as well."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scholarship",
          "scholarship"
        ],
        [
          "tuition",
          "tuition"
        ],
        [
          "fees",
          "fees"
        ],
        [
          "educational",
          "educational"
        ],
        [
          "living",
          "living"
        ],
        [
          "expense",
          "expense"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, New Monologues for Mature Actors, page 65",
          "text": "You had better get off your ass and be my husband because I signed on for the full ride.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Charles H. Staples, Cancer Ain't Nothing But a Pimple Ta God, page 45",
          "text": "Only this time, I knew I was going for the full ride. The only thing was that I didn't know was what kind of ride I was going on.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Thomas R. Lindlof, Bryan C. Taylor, Qualitative Communication Research Methods, page xii",
          "text": "Advanced readers may, as a result, wish to read selectively, but we believe that novices will benefit from taking the full ride.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A total and complete experience of something."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "complete",
          "complete"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see full, ride."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "full",
          "full#English"
        ],
        [
          "ride",
          "ride#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "full ride"
}