commercial college
Americannoun
noun
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
In the commercial college the authorities had provided stenographers’ note-books and pencils, and the representatives of typewriter companies had given lectures on cleaning and oiling typewriters, putting in new ribbons, adjusting tension-wheels.
From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis
She believed again, as in commercial college she had callowly believed, that business was beginning to see itself as communal, world-ruling, and beginning to be inspired to communal, kingly virtues and responsibility.
From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis
The Dunlops, as it happened, were childless for the winter, young Chauncey attending a "commercial college" in a neighboring town.
From The Desert and the Sown by Mary Hallock Foote
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