training school

noun

|Updated on: 13 Jun 2018

Definition of training school

1 : a school preparing students for a particular occupation

2 : a correctional institution for the custody and reeducation of juvenile delinquents

Recent Examples of training school from the Web

Many of those who finished graduate school or officer-training school in the late ’80s or early ’90s bear the scars of having studied a subject that became seemingly irrelevant overnight.

— keith gessen, New York Times, "The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio," 8 May 2018
The higher education secretary’s vision for the for-profit fund resembles the state’s guarantee fund for private career training schools.

— danielle douglas-gabriel, Washington Post, "Maryland lawmakers and state higher ed commission at odds over for-profit college fund," 3 Mar. 2018
Proceeds from the recent luncheon benefit Na'amat's 250 daycare centers located all over Israel, as well as 17 vocational training schools that educates more than 3,500 students in 20 vocational and technological high schools.

— sergio carmona, Jewish Journal, "Na'amat's celebration of Israel at 70 includes honorees, entertainment," 4 May 2018
Watkins said she's been running a CPR training school in Flossmoor, Ill., since 2011.

— karen caffarini, Post-Tribune, "Merrillville approves plan for Broadway auto repair shop," 26 Apr. 2018
After that, Leos learned the art of Paperwork Fu at an Air Force training school for office management.

— roy bragg, San Antonio Express-News, "Better running through paperwork," 15 Apr. 2018
This year the focus is on finding students from Naperville who are going to a career/technical training school after high school or plan to start their college life at the community college level.

— Naperville Sun, "Naperville Newcomer of the Month for April," 13 Apr. 2018
By the end of 2017, there were fewer than 50 boys at the training school.

— josh kovner, courant.com, "Connecticut Juvenile Training School Closes," 12 Apr. 2018
Inspired by the teacher's story, NIIT Ghana, a computer training school based in Accra, donated five desktop computers to the school, along with books and a laptop for Akoto.

— gianluca mezzofiore, CNN, "Donors give computers to Ghana school where teacher taught computer tech on a blackboard," 15 Mar. 2018

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