comprehensive school
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Origin of comprehensive school
First recorded in 1945–50
Words nearby comprehensive school
comprador, comprehend, comprehensible, comprehension, comprehensive, comprehensive school, compress, compressed, compressed air, compressed speech, compressibility
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comprehensive school
noun
mainly British a secondary school for children of all abilities from the same district
Eastern Canadian another name for composite school
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