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private school
noun
: a school that does not get money from the government and that is run by a group of private individuals
Full Definition of PRIVATE SCHOOL
: a school that is established, conducted, and primarily supported by a nongovernmental agency
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First Known Use of PRIVATE SCHOOL
1665
Rhymes with PRIVATE SCHOOL
April fool, Barnaul, blow one's cool, boarding school, charter school, common school, cutty stool, dirty pool, ducking stool, fascicule, gallinule, grammar school, graticule, groupuscule, Hartlepool, Istanbul, kilojoule, lenticule, Liverpool, machine tool, magnet school, majuscule, middle school, minischool, minuscule, molecule, motor pool, normal school, nursery school, overrule, public school, reform school, reticule, ridicule, summer school, Sunday school, training school, vestibule, wading pool
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