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home-school

verb

  1. to teach one's child at home instead of sending him or her to school
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

    1. being educated at home rather than in school

      home-school kids

    2. relating to the education of children in their own homes instead of in school

      home-school parents

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Oh, I could have found a spot for them at another D.C. public school, perhaps marginally better than their home school.

She said she organizes home-school activities for her own children and others who are home-schooled in the area.

From the pleasant village home-school, of which he sometimes told me, to the Maison Sorel, was a grating change.

Thus Hobby's school really became a force in the education of George, because it was ably supported by the home school.

I thought a select home school where there were accommodations for very few girls would be much more desirable.

The winter of 1839 Susan attended the home school, taught by Daniel Wright, a fine scholar and remarkably successful teacher.

Oh, yas, sir; he b'longs to all three schools—to fo' for that matter, countin' the home school.

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