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American Campus Communities Inc, et al. – ‘8-K’ for 6/9/20 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Thursday, 6/11/20, at 12:09pm ET   ·   For:  6/9/20   ·   Accession #:  1193125-20-166425   ·   File #s:  1-32265, 333-181102-01

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 6/11/20  American Campus Communities Inc   8-K:1,2,9   6/09/20   16:629K                                   Donnelley … Solutions/FA
          American Campus Communities Operating Partnership LP

Current Report   —   Form 8-K   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     48K 
 2: EX-1.1      Underwriting Agreement                              HTML    205K 
 3: EX-4.4      Instrument Defining the Rights of Security Holders  HTML     41K 
 4: EX-5.1      Opinion of Counsel re: Legality                     HTML     19K 
 5: EX-8.1      Opinion of Counsel re: Tax Matters                  HTML     19K 
12: R1          Cover Page                                          HTML     54K 
13: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     14K 
11: XML         XBRL Instance -- d851577d8k_htm                      XML     18K 
16: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      6K 
 7: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- acc-20200609_cal                XML      8K 
 8: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- acc-20200609_def                 XML     42K 
 9: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- acc-20200609_lab                      XML     67K 
10: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- acc-20200609_pre               XML     41K 
 6: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- acc-20200609                          XSD     18K 
14: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               15±    23K 
15: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001193125-20-166425-xbrl      Zip     73K

‘EX-101.DEF’   —   XBRL Definitions — acc-20200609_def

This Exhibit is an XBRL XML File.

                                                                                                                                                                                
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