English

Adjective

grandparented ‎(not comparable)

1. (Canada, New Zealand) That satisfies older, but not current, rules or regulations
   • 2015 September 7, Nadine Ijaz et al., “Supportive but “worried”: perceptions of naturopaths, homeopaths and Chinese medicine practitioners through a regulatory transition in Ontario, Canada”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 15, DOI:10.1186/s12906-015-0846-6:

     Also raised were the potential challenges long-standing practitioners might face in collecting documentation of their training for the grandparented registration process: Asking for transcripts or study reports may [create] great difficulties for those old practitioners, for these schools, or professors may not exist anymore [sic]. [CM] A small number of respondents opposed the grandparented registration process outright, arguing that all registrants should be required to [W]rite an exam in order to have a legal license!…no Grandfather law. [CM] However, Chinese medicine practitioners’ most pronounced concern around grandparented registration pertained to the issue of language.

Verb

grandparented

1. simple past tense and past participle of grandparent