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continuation school

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noun

  1. a school providing extension courses for people who have left school in the elementary grades to go to work.

Etymology

Origin of continuation school

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

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Briefly it is as follows: The Continuation school is to be established in this country.

From As We Are and As We May Be by Besant, Walter, Sir

The Continuation school will have two branches—the recreative and the instructive.

From As We Are and As We May Be by Besant, Walter, Sir

And if the rate is now ninepence, what will it be when to the burden of the elementary school is added that of the Continuation school?

From As We Are and As We May Be by Besant, Walter, Sir

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