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business colleges

  • plural
    of business college.
    business college
    noun
    a school for training students in the clerical aspects of business and commerce, as in typing or bookkeeping.

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A clever myth has been well watered by mainly MBAs as they spew out from business colleges, voraciously looking for companies to infect with their asset stripping takeover obsession.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2010

Sir: The independent business colleges of America, greatest source of new secretaries, are flooded with seven calls for every one secretary trained, on a national average.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are two very general prejudices against the class of schools known as business colleges.

From Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

Law schools and medical colleges, be it known, are comparatively modern institutions—not quite so new, however, as business colleges, but pretty nearly so.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen by Elbert Hubbard

There are also business colleges, technical schools, academies, universities, colleges, professional schools, correspondence schools, and other educational institutions of every possible kind.

From Analyzing Character by Katherine M. H. Blackford

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