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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
junior college
noun
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▪ A junior college recruit she had great hopes for is not coming along fast enough.
▪ Cal has only one other kicker in junior college transfer Tim Wolleck, whom Brache beat out during fall camp.
▪ Four defensive starters are freshmen, two others are sophomores, and another is a first-year junior college transfer.
▪ In Quebec, this was adapted to cover late secondary, junior college, and university work.
▪ It was a great gallery for a junior college.
▪ Junior Dan Nash, a 6-0 junior college transfer from Pierce College, is the setter.
▪ Since 1961, the new junior college had been making do with the evening hours at Chula Vista High School.
▪ Two rows behind the bench sits a sweet-faced junior college girl who just announced her intention to play for Oregon next year.
Wiktionary
junior college

n. An institution of higher education that awards the associate's degree but not bachelor's degree or higher.

WordNet
junior college

n. a college that offers only the first two years terminating in an associate degree

Wikipedia
Junior college

The term junior college refers to different educational institutions in different countries.

Junior college (Singapore)

Junior colleges in Singapore were designed to offer an accelerated alternative to the traditional three-year programme, but the two-year programme they offer has become the norm for students pursuing university education.

Junior colleges accept students based on their O-level results; an L1R5 (first language and five relevant subjects) score of 20 points or less must be attained for a student to gain admission. Junior colleges provide a 2-year programme leading up to the A-level examinations. The CI accepts students based on their GCE O-level results; an L1R4 (first language and four relevant subjects) score of 20 points or less must be attained for a student to gain admission.

Usage examples of "junior college".

She had started her correspondence course from the local junior college.

He attended high school in a southern Missouri town of 3000+, then attended a private 2-year academy roughly analogous to junior college today, except that it was very small- had to be.

He attended high school in a southern Missouri town of 3000+, then attended a private 2 - year academy roughly analogous to junior college today, except that it was very small - had to be.

In the end, however, the question was deferred by the young man's rather surprising decision to attend the local junior college.

I worked hard all my life, took good care of my wife and son, and even put my boy through junior college.

There had been a fire in Des Moines earlier in the day that had burned most of the south side of Hull Avenue and Grandview Junior College.

Vicky, whose only daughter had dropped out of junior college to get married and become a housewife, whose only son had been content with a vocational-technical school (none of that for her son!

Since my year of junior college showed straight A's in chemistry and math, he assigned me to the Scientific Investigation Detail as an evidence technician.

They finally told me the story of how my brother had taken to drink in the Coast Guard and had continued his daily bouts with the bottle all through junior college.