semi-boarding school

noun

A school that provides board and lodging to some students, but allows others to attend during the day only, like a day school.

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Meanings

nounsemi-boarding school (plural semi-boarding schools)

plural semi-boarding schools

  1. A school that provides board and lodging to some students, but allows others to attend during the day only, like a day school.

    Meanwhile, the government expanded semi-boarding school facilities.

    2004, Susan Eva Eckstein, Back From the Future: Cuba Under Castro, →ISBN, page 43
    2 more examples

    Mom searched and found a semi-boarding school for my little sister and me to attend.

    2013, Leinha, Intriguing Way to Succeed, →ISBN, page 63

    West Monmouth, a semi-boarding school partly owned by the Haberdashers' Company, was universally recognised as the top school in the area.

    2015, John Campbell, Roy Jenkins, →ISBN, page 17

Translations

Spanish seminternado
  • seminternadoschool
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