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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prep school
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ From what Louise told her, this was a middle-income prep school, not one of the gilded establishments.
▪ He brought a prep school curriculum to Mercy High.
▪ In a prep school match, a score of 32 rates with a Test century.
▪ Q Our son is 11 years old and attends a prep school as a boarder.
▪ The best students, who attended one of the few selective schools, received the equivalent of a high-quality prep school education.
▪ This was a prep school now.
▪ Those shy prep school guys at mixers with their endearing long hands and blushing complexions, I could make them laugh.
Wiktionary
prep school

n. 1 (context US English) A private school intended to prepare its students to get into prestigious universities. 2 (context British English) A private primary school which prepares its pupils for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Entrance_Examination most commonly at the age of thirteen, and subsequent entry into public school.

WordNet
prep school

n. a private secondary school [syn: preparatory school]

Usage examples of "prep school".

Fortunately, most papers prefer to run stories that include real news, not stuff about some prep school’.

From not fitting at home to not fitting in the Fleet prep school had been a tiny, natural transition.

I'm not going to let them think we're babies of fourteen, just come from some silly prep school.

Because Corfin had been in the Academy prep school, and had a Fleet medical record going back ten years or more.

Billy looked like a small boy left behind by his parents after the first day out from prep school.

O'Malley, and from prep school, from Harvard, and from this old Indian horse trainer I met in Tulsa some years back.