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commercial college

American  

noun

  1. a school that trains people for careers in business.


commercial college British  

noun

  1. a college providing tuition in commercial skills, such as shorthand and book-keeping

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

Todd, of Chatham and of the commercial college, had come to call that evening.

From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair

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

The curriculum of any good commercial college or university department of business includes courses in Economics, Commercial Geography, Industrial History, Business Management, and similar subjects.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul

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