Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fee for instruction, especially at a college, university, or private school.
- noun Instruction; teaching.
- noun Archaic Guardianship.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Guard; keeping; protection; guardianship.
- noun The particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward.
- noun Instruction; the act or business of teaching the various branches of learning.
- noun The fee for instruction.
- noun Synonyms Tuition differs from the words compared under instruction chiefly in being a rather formal and business-like word: as, the charge for tuition is $100: it represents the act or series of acts, but not the art.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.
- noun Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction
- noun The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A sum of
money paid for instruction (such as in ahigh school ,boarding school ,university , orcollege ). - noun The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
- noun archaic Care,
guardianship .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
- noun a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Vouchers, which will likely be passed under the euphemism "tuition tax credits," will enable public money to be poured into private schools, public school teachers will be paid on the basis of how their students do on poorly written standardized tests, teachers will be allowed to enter the field with fewer requirements since everyone knows that experienced teachers in the new way of thinking are a liability.
Randy Turner: Message to Missouri Schools: If They Don't Sound Like Us, Check Their Papers Randy Turner 2012
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Vouchers, which will likely be passed under the euphemism "tuition tax credits," will enable public money to be poured into private schools, public school teachers will be paid on the basis of how their students do on poorly written standardized tests, teachers will be allowed to enter the field with fewer requirements since everyone knows that experienced teachers in the new way of thinking are a liability.
Randy Turner: Message to Missouri Schools: If They Don't Sound Like Us, Check Their Papers Randy Turner 2012
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Vouchers, which will likely be passed under the euphemism "tuition tax credits," will enable public money to be poured into private schools, public school teachers will be paid on the basis of how their students do on poorly written standardized tests, teachers will be allowed to enter the field with fewer requirements since everyone knows that experienced teachers in the new way of thinking are a liability.
Randy Turner: Message to Missouri Schools: If They Don't Sound Like Us, Check Their Papers Randy Turner 2012
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Many wore red hats embroidered with the word "tuition" -- tuition caps.
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Some schools have what they call tuition installment plans.
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Yes Services Blackboard, digital recording of class sessions, course materials included in tuition and hand delivered, meeting rooms for business-related meetings School Services Does the program offer Career Services to EMBA Students?
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The cost of going to school will increase, maybe not in tuition fees at first, but at least in opportunity costs.
Support for Higher Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Even if you are a full-pay student at an expensive public college (say, University of Vermont for example whose tuition is nearly $10,000 per year), that $10,000 is well below the cost of educating a student at UVM.
Teacher, teach thyself economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The price of tuition is $325 and it runs from Monday night until the following Sunday morning.
Why Train to Sing? 2009
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Financial aid rankings came from school-reported data and student surveys, and factored in tuition, fees, room and board.
Best Value Colleges: Can getting a degree be affordable? 2010
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