training school

training school
noun
1. a school providing practical vocational and technical training (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms: ↑school
2. correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders
• Syn: ↑reformatory, ↑reform school
• Derivationally related forms: ↑reformatory (for: ↑reformatory)
• Hypernyms: ↑correctional institution
• Hyponyms: ↑borstal

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noun
1. : a school preparing students for a particular occupation or teaching a special skill
2. : a correctional institution for the custody and reeducation of juvenile delinquents — compare industrial school, reformatory

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1. a school that provides training in some art, profession, or vocation.
2. an institution for the care of juvenile delinquents.
[1820-30]

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training school,
1. a school for giving training in some art, profession, or skill: »

a training school for teachers or nurses, a training school for mechanics.

2. a house of correction for young offenders or criminals: »

At least two of the state training schools for delinquent boys, the New York State Training School for Boys in 1937 and the Illinois Training School for Boys, have tried using foster homes for the placement of certain children committed to them (Clyde B. Vedder).


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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