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community college definition

☆ community college

a junior college established to serve a certain community and sometimes supported in part by it, often emphasizing career, rather than academic, programs

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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