training school

noun

1
: a school preparing students for a particular occupation
2
: a correctional institution for the custody and reeducation of juvenile delinquents

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Ground was broken on a 51-acre site in Elk Grove Village, which was just 5 miles away from O’Hare International Airport, for United Airlines’ headquarters and training schools. Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025 Adam Penner, president of Harv’s Air pilot training school, said the two students, a man and a woman, were practicing takeoffs and landings. Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 9 July 2025 But this time, when the familiar group then comes face-to-face inside the recognizable Red Center, home to the handmaids training school and familiar season-one stomping ground for the series, there was no violence. Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025 In the summer of 1942, the the command opened a combat training school at Tarrant Field for pilots on the heavy bombers being produced next door at the Consolidated Vultee plant (now Lockheed Martin). Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for training school

Word History

First Known Use

1712, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of training school was in 1712

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