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vocational schools

  • plural
    of vocational school.
    vocational school
    noun
    a school offering instruction in one or more skilled or semiskilled trades or occupations.

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Prior to the pandemic, "people weren't really talking about going to trade school, vocational schools, stuff like that. It was like: 'Go to college, get your four years.'"

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

He prefers people who went to vocational schools and “want to work on the floor.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

“Additionally, many vocational schools — including cosmetology schools, culinary schools, technical colleges and electrical trade schools — have the same penalty- and tax-free treatment of 529 plan funds.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025

For high school, the aspiring artist attended Washington Irving, one of the first women’s vocational schools in the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025

In addition there are approximately 58,000 men in specialized vocational schools where they have full shop facilities of A.E.F.

From Some War-time Lessons The Soldier's Standards of Conduct; The War As a Practical Test of American Scholarship; What Have We Learned? by Frederick P. (Frederick Paul) Keppel

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