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Training school   /trˈeɪnɪŋ skul/   Listen
Training school

noun
1.
A school providing practical vocational and technical training.
2.
Correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders.  Synonyms: reform school, reformatory.






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... different footing. The Home Guard was regarded with much respect, for it was composed of those whose extreme age or youth alone withheld them from active service; and every youngster in its ranks looked upon it as a training school, and was ready to die in defence of his home if need were, and, besides, expected to obtain permission to go into ...
— Two Little Confederates • Thomas Nelson Page

... be true, as has been said, that ordinary life in the world is a training school for a life more real and more sublime, then everything pertaining to life in the world must possess a sacramental character, and possess it inherently, and not merely by imputation. Let us discover, ...
— Architecture and Democracy • Claude Fayette Bragdon

... then Bruce is not just a 'mere dog.' He is—he is BRUCE. All I ask is that if he is injured and not killed, you'll arrange to have him sent back here to us. We'll pay for it, of course. And will you write to whomever you happen to know, at that dog-training school in England, and ask that Bruce be treated nicely while he is training there? He's never been whipped. He's never needed it, ...
— Bruce • Albert Payson Terhune

... Santee Training School presented a unique and interesting program at the closing exercises, June 15th, 1900. "A New Departure Program for Closing of School" was the title upon the printed page. The program was divided into two parts. Part first was confined to history. The general ...
— The American Missionary -- Volume 54, No. 3, July, 1900 • Various

... opening of the new training school at North Chicago, Ill., and am glad to note the opportunity which this gives for drawing upon young men of the country from the interior, from farms, stores, shops, and offices, which insures a high average of intelligence and character among them, and which they showed in the very wonderful ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various


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