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Break from education to go into space?
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gap year
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Wiktionary
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n. A yearlong break from study taken by some students on leaving school before starting university, often spent gaining work experience or travelling
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In the professional or career world, a gap year is a year before going to college or university and after finishing high school or taking a year off before going into graduate school after completing a bachelor as an undergraduate. It is also known as a ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The ruinous boy was now nineteen and sleeping through his gap year .
Usage examples of gap year.
The gap year was spent working in South Africa for De Beers in a job arranged by my father's brother, a research scientist at the diamond mining and manufacturing firm.