prevocational
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of prevocational
First recorded in 1910–15; pre- + vocational
Example Sentences
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“We call on the British foreign ministry to stop its prevocational activities.”
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In Washington and elsewhere, subminimum wages are most associated with sheltered workshops offering prevocational services, usually underwritten by Medicaid funds.
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Carpenter and Laws both expressed concern over prevocational training programs, which are intended to prepare workers with disabilities for jobs in the community and often pay subminimum wages.
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From 2013 to 2015, the Northwest Center had 61 workers in prevocational programs.
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The program has since ended, said Emily Miller, human-resources manager at the Northwest Center, and under a federal change, all prevocational training will have to end by 2019.
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