GI Bill

American  

noun

1. any of various Congressional bills enacted to provide funds for college educations, home-buying loans, and other benefits for armed-services veterans.

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GI Bill Cultural  

1. A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed forces.

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Example Sentences

After the war, manufacturing boomed, the GI Bill fueled white-collar growth and workers fanned out to the suburbs.

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Some help for veterans came in the form of the GI Bill.

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“The GI Bill,” as Mr. Nasaw writes, “was designed, in large part, to bind the veterans’ wounds and ease their adjustment to civilian life.”

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Not that all veterans qualified for the GI Bill but for those who did qualify the bill allowed “free tuition, books, and fees to attend college, vocational school, or a job-training program of your choice and a living allowance while you were enrolled.”

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Many who would later establish themselves as serious artists and thinkers took advantage of the GI Bill.

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