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industrial school definition

industrial school

  1. a school where industrial arts are taught
  2. such a school to which neglected or delinquent youths are sent for habilitation

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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