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tuition

noun

tə-ˈwi-shən

Definition of tuition

as in education

the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another a private tutor handled the tuition of their children

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Recent Examples of tuition The funding will help close final-year tuition gaps and support the creation of senior theses and graduate collections. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026 Sacramento State has been ranked as one of the top schools in California and the United States for tuition and tax dollar value in 2026, Washington Monthly said. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2026 The slump in international students means fewer tuition dollars for the universities. — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Generally, the school uses the money to cover your tuition, fees, on-campus housing, and other applicable costs, such as meal plans. — Miranda Marquit, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tuition

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Among the grants that were eliminated, frozen or delayed were ones related to maternal health in Michigan, education research in Mississippi and assistance to minority farmers in Iowa, the researchers found.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
For a woman who stopped her formal education after two years of high school, this was extraordinary.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of education

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The Pitt follows a group of doctors in a teaching hospital’s emergency room, and each episode roughly tracks one hour of their shift, all while illuminating the American healthcare system’s shortfalls.

— Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026
The statement was produced by the University of Chicago more than a decade ago to protect the free expression rights of students and faculty when teaching, researching, learning and protesting.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of teaching

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Political behavior scholarship typically measures education by a person’s level of formal schooling.

— Kenneth Michael White, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
Heder didn’t want to disrupt the schooling of her two young children, ages 10 and 12, and has become too enmeshed in the area to want to leave it.

— Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of schooling

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Orders can be equivocal, statements ambiguous, instructions murky.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
Studies have used everything from intensive classroom instruction to short daily sessions with language-learning apps, over periods ranging from weeks to months, to see whether language learning can improve cognitive function.

— Karen Stollznow, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026

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