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SCHOOL SYSTEM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does school system mean?
• SCHOOL SYSTEM (noun)
The noun SCHOOL SYSTEM has 1 sense:
1. establishment including the plant and equipment for providing education from kindergarten through high school
Familiarity information: SCHOOL SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Establishment including the plant and equipment for providing education from kindergarten through high school
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("school system" is a kind of...):
establishment (a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence)
Meronyms (parts of "school system"):
school; schoolhouse (a building where young people receive education)
Holonyms ("school system" is a part of...):
base; infrastructure (the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area)
Context examples
I never had a flat salary, which looking back, seems remarkable—I worked completely on commission for 16 years. (I started my website within that period, in the last six of the 16 years, and did both to get the site going—you can’t start a new business and quit your day job.) I was the sole provider for my two daughters, put them through the New York City private school system, then college, and paid all their student loans over the course of seven years myself, with no financial help from their father.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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