trade school

noun

: a secondary school teaching the skilled trades

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Most trade schools are for-profit, and both trade schools and the broader for-profit higher education sector—which has a history marred by fraud, abuse and controversy—seem poised to thrive under Trump and a Republican Congress. Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025 Undergraduates are said to have ever more pre-professional orientations at the expense of the liberal arts; one professor ruefully described the place as the world’s most élite trade school. Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025 Baker plans to use that money to go trade school become a master auto mechanic and eventually open his own shop. Steve Hartman, CBS News, 6 June 2025 About 70% of the Maine East grads have been accepted into two- and four-year colleges, as well as trade schools, according to District 207 spokeswoman Kimberly Thevenin. Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for trade school

Word History

First Known Use

1829, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of trade school was in 1829

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“Trade school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trade%20school. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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trade school

noun
: a secondary school teaching the skilled trades

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