junior college
noun
: an educational institution that offers two years of studies corresponding to those in the first two years of a four-year college and that often offers technical, vocational, and liberal studies to the adults of a community
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That potentially plum slot will go to Stumble, a single-camera mockumentary set in the junior college cheer squad universe.
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Josef Adalian, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
But this is not your average junior college program.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
She was hired at the nursing home, which had recently opened near her parents’ place, shortly after graduating from a junior college in northeastern Hokkaido.
—Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
It’s called the JC route, or JuCo, or just plain junior college or community college.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Josef Adalian, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
But this is not your average junior college program.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
She was hired at the nursing home, which had recently opened near her parents’ place, shortly after graduating from a junior college in northeastern Hokkaido.
—Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
It’s called the JC route, or JuCo, or just plain junior college or community college.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for junior college
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“Junior college.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/junior%20college. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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