off campus

idiom

: in housing not provided by a school
She prefers living off campus.

Examples of off campus in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Colleges from coast to coast have seen pro-Palestinian protesters take over school libraries and buildings and had to clean menacing graffiti off campus property. Emma Colton, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2024 The report found Schiraldi violated agency policy by taking the children off campus without a court order and by waiving a mandate that they be restrained. Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 31 Jan. 2024 Alvarez got a job in the school cafeteria but was escorted off campus when staffers recognized him from a security flyer. Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024 And the Dons are playing this critical home game off campus at the Warriors’ Chase Center. Jeff Faraudo, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024 Two other unsolved slayings of UGA female students occurred off campus. Wayne Ford, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2024 International students are allowed to work up to 20 hours a week off campus while studying. Norimitsu Onishi Nasuna Stuart-Ulin, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023 They were ordered off campus Nov. 26, 2023 Under Cal State’s proposal, Toombs said the increases in the last two years of the plan would be contingent on the budget, meaning money for the raises would depend on the availability of state funding. Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023 Martin had her students pile into her car and drove them off campus. Ken Ritter and Rio Yamat The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 7 Dec. 2023

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“Off campus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/off%20campus. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.

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