school-age child
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- noun
- /skuːl-eɪdʒ tʃaɪld/
:
niño en edad escolar
- Schools provide a safe environment for school-age children to learn and grow.
- elementary school-age children
- school-age children attend
- parents of school-age children
Examples
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Developmental dyslexia affects 3%-10% of school-age children (Duff & Clarke, 2011).
Academic text (2015) -
However, the participants were school-age children rather than preschoolers.
Academic text (2013) -
First, it uses the language of school-age children in a format that they can easily understand.
Academic text (1994) -
They bring school age children together to have camps.
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The committee decided to focus its work on school-age children rather than cover the entire lifespan.
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Several countries have achieved nearly full enrollment for all school-age children, while others with larger populations are still far behind.
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The increased consumption of sweetened drinks is considered an important risk factor for obesity in school-age children.
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By the mid-sixties, around 96% of school-age children were enrolled in primary school.
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Ukrainetz et al. (2005) examined school-age children's use of 13 different types of "expressive elaborations."
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Many parents worry about the academic performance of their school-age children.
Synonyms
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A child who goes to school and learns from a teacher
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A child who goes to primary or secondary school
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A student who attends classes as a child or teen
A child who goes to primary or secondary school
Antonyms
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
school-age + child
The meaning 'a child of an age at which children generally attend school' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'school' + 'age' (of the age for school) combined with 'child'. This hyphenated compound follows regular English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically predictable, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will understand it.
Etymology
The phrase school-age child comes from the literal idea of a child at school age, the time when children 'attend school', so it means a child who is 'old enough to go to school'.