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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The Dominican Republic’s free zones also house technical training schools, which the country has invested in to help train and recruit employees for companies. Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 4 June 2025 The new Scuola Bulgari is the first publicly accessible Bulgari training school focused on jewelry, which will open in September. Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 16 Apr. 2025 The facility has an on-site training school, which welcomes groups of 10 apprentices at a time and also provides on-the-job training for existing employees, who are 82 percent female and range in age from 18 to 65. Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2025 For decades, advocates for the disabled have called for closing the training school. Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for training school

Word History

First Known Use

1712, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of training school was in 1712

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“Training school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/training%20school. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.

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