Definition of "tuition"

tuition

/tuˈɪʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural tuitions
1. (Canada, US) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).
2. The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
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  Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. […] There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]
  2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30
  1. (India, Malaysia, Singapore) Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)
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    Tuition in the past was like taking medicine and you sent children for it only if they were doing poorly in a subject.
    2021 August 18, Qiu Guanhua, “Forum: Heavy reliance on tuition to boost performance is not healthy”, in The Straits Times‎, Singapore, archived from the original on 28 December 2022
3. (archaic) Care, guardianship.
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  BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so I commit you—CLAUDIO. To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,—DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick.BENEDICK. Nay, mock not, mock not.
  1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]

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tuition

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