commercial college
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of commercial college
First recorded in 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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Kath left school at the age of 14 and attended commercial college before beginning secretarial work.
From BBC • May 3, 2025
Son John went to work as a bookkeeper in a Cleveland commission house at 16 after high school and a short turn in a commercial college.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even at lunch-hour Una could not come to much understanding with the girls of the commercial college.
From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair
She's just quit the High School because she wants to go to a commercial college.
From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph
After taking a course in a commercial college, he returned to Wisconsin in 1856, took a claim of one hundred and sixty acres at Ashland and opened a store at Bayfield.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
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