tuition
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Etymology
[edit]From Old French [Term?], from Latin tuitiō (“guard, protection, defense”), from tuēri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) enPR: to͞oĭ'shən, IPA(key): /tuˈɪʃən/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tyo͞oĭ'shən, IPA(key): /tjuːˈɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (India, Malaysia, Singapore) enPR: tyo͞o'shən, IPA(key): /ˈtjuːʃən/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɪʃən
Noun
[edit]tuition (countable and uncountable, plural tuitions)
- The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
- 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
- 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. […]
- (India, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia) Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)
- tuition classes
- 2021 August 18, Qiu Guanhua, “Forum: Heavy reliance on tuition to boost performance is not healthy”, in The Straits Times[2], Singapore, archived from the original on 28 December 2022:
- Tuition in the past was like taking medicine and you sent children for it only if they were doing poorly in a subject.
- (Canada, US) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college); tuition fees.
- These rosemaling workshops are no place for anyone who wants to pester me or the students with the "white privilege" card, inter alia. Therefore, I reserve the right to refund the tuition of such men and women, kick them out the door, and bar them from at least two of my future events.
- Synonym: (UK) tuition fees
- (archaic) Care, guardianship.
- 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, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- 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.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]sum of money paid for instruction
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training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor
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References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tuition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “tuition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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