training school

1. A school that gives practical vocational and technical instruction.

2. A detention home that offers vocational training to juvenile offenders.

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train′ing school`

1. a school that provides training in some art, profession, or vocation.

2. an institution for the care of juvenile delinquents.

[1820–30]

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Noun	1.	training school - a school providing practical vocational and technical training school - an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900"
	2.	training school - correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders reform school, reformatory borstal - formerly a British reform school for youths considered too young to send to prison correctional institution - a penal institution maintained by the government

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Tell Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, of your district schools and your model schools, and your training schools, and your whole kettle-of-fish of schools; and Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, tells you plainly, all right, all correct - he hadn't such advantages - but let us have hard-headed, solid-fisted people - the education that made him won't do for everybody, he knows well - such and such his education was, however, and you may force him to swallow boiling fat, but you shall never force him to suppress the facts of his life.'

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