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training school

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  1. a school that provides training in some art, profession, or vocation.
  2. an institution for the care of juvenile delinquents.
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Origin of training school

First recorded in 1820–30
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Examples from the Web for training school

Historical Examples

  • Belated vacations and illness had depleted the training-school.

    K

    Mary Roberts Rinehart

  • The inmates of the Training-school are not deaconesses alone.

    Deaconesses in Europe

    Jane M. Bancroft

  • “No better nursery or training-school in time of war,” they say.

    The Lively Poll

    R.M. Ballantyne

  • That may be true, but it is pleasanter to think of them as a training-school for times of peace.

    The Lively Poll

    R.M. Ballantyne

  • The war, if it was to be won, could only be won in the workshop and the training-school.