commercial college

noun

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

commercial college

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of commercial college¹

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

There are also a high school, a female college, a commercial college and several common schools.

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Further means of advance in these studies should be provided by the day or evening Commercial College.

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So, you see, even in Muskegon Commercial College there were lessons to be learned.

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Even at lunch-hour Una could not come to much understanding with the girls of the commercial college.

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The Dunlops, as it happened, were childless for the winter, young Chauncey attending a "commercial college" in a neighboring town.

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