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Candidates can advocate for nontraditional forms of education, expanding opportunities for two-year programs, apprenticeships and trade schools, which can lead to lifelong, high-paying jobs.
—Micky Horstman, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2024
Private trade schools are a much faster option for women interested in flying.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 30 May 2024
With some universities estimating the cost of attendance for the upcoming academic year to be nearly $100,000, more families are reconsidering the expense and looking at pre-apprenticeship programs, trade schools, military, or immediately entering the workforce.
—Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 21 July 2024
Lay-offs, retirements, industrial outsourcing and the trend away from trade schools and toward college also contributed to labor and supply chain shrinkage.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1829, in the meaning defined above
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“Trade school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trade%20school. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
Kids Definition
trade school
noun
: a secondary school teaching the skilled trades
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