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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
private education
noun
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▪ A private education hardly comes cheap: students have to pay up to $ 15,000.
▪ At present rates, an average private education will cost you about £50,000 by the end.
▪ In due course I shall return to my private education on the London trading floor.
▪ Opting out may also serve to encourage the development of private education.
▪ Private medicine turned out to be one of these issues, and private education another.
▪ These schools now provided a free alternative to expensive private education - so that the number of middle-class children in them rose.
▪ They said they hope the publicity will lead to scholarship money for a private education for Miranda.

Usage examples of "private education".

Perhaps his private education and coddled seclusion had something to do with his premature flowering.

With few exceptions, those of the Medical Faculty have had a private education, mostly at the most exclusive schools.

So that the question of publick or private education is not properly a general one.

She too was literate in English, having had an excellent private education, so she also would have been granted sanctuary if she had survived.

When I think how long weve been urging the abolition of private education Im amazed.

This aspect, of course, also resolves the mystery of Helse's use as a courier: She too was literate in English, having had an excellent private education, so she also would have been granted sanctuary if she had survived.

Her private education included physical therapy, psychology, music, dance and business.

He had a voice on him that cut right through me, full of private education and a lifetime of privilege and dumb words spoken with all the confidence in the world.

The garden and buildings used to be part of the Oakham School campus, but private education hadn't lasted six months after the PSP came to power, swept away in the card carriers' Equalization crusade.