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noun

a school that trains people for careers in business.

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Origin of commercial college

First recorded in 1795–1805

Words nearby commercial college

commercial art, commercial attaché, commercial bank, commercial break, commercial code, commercial college, commercial credit, commercial fertilizer, commercialism, commerciality, commercialization

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How to use commercial college in a sentence

There were no deaths on scheduled commercial aviation flights in 2014, in a system that operates 68,000 flights a day.
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This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.
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These days weather should never cause a commercial airliner to crash.
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An additonal 30,000 made it to Europe by other routes including commercial flights and dangerous overland passages.
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Are you seeing more commercial pressure from academic presses for historians to sexy it up a bit?
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He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.
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They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
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But you will find most colleges and most college societies bar religious instruction and discussion.
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In practice we find a good deal of technical study comes into the college stage.
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In Scotland and America that is distinguished and thought of clearly as the college stage.
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British Dictionary definitions for commercial college

commercial college

noun

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

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