training school

noun

Synonyms of training school next

: a school preparing students for a particular occupation

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

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Metzger ended up in Leeds in an ORT training school learning woodworking and eventually found work in a furniture factory outside Leeds in the country on the Harwood Estate, before moving to a radical Marxist commune in Bristol where Metzger found the politics too extreme. —

Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024 The building has a rich history, once serving as a gladiator training school. —

Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024 The doughnut shop operates under The Other Side Academy, a training school aimed at helping people struggling with incarceration and addiction. —

Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 31 July 2024 He was then captured and sold into slavery, ultimately ending up at a gladiatorial training school owned by his new master in Capua, southeast of Rome. —

Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2024 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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