schooling
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editschooling (countable and uncountable, plural schoolings)
- Training or instruction.
- Institutional education; attendance of school.
- I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
- (dressage) The training of a horse at dressage.
- (obsolete) Discipline; reproof; reprimand.
- He gave his son a good schooling.
- 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 295:
- […] I thought the schooling as severe as the case merited, […]
- (obsolete) Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
Translations
edittraining or instruction
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institutional education
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training of horse
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Verb
editschooling
- present participle and gerund of school
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