schooling

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school·ing | \ ˈskü-liŋ

Definition of schooling

1a : instruction in school : education

b : training, guidance, or discipline derived from experience

2 archaic : reproof

3 : the cost of instruction and maintenance at school

4 : the training of a horse for service especially : the teaching and exercising of horse and rider in the formal techniques of equitation

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Examples of schooling in a Sentence

He has had little schooling. the extended schooling needed for a horse to be able to make those precision movements

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