secretarial school
2
2.7
- noun
- /ˌsɛkrəˈtɛriəl skuːl/
- Archaic
:
escuela de secretariado
- Many students enroll in secretarial school to gain training in typing and business communication.
- went to secretarial school
Examples
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My parents insisted I go to secretarial school, so as a dutiful daughter who obeyed her parents, off to secretarial school I went, constantly dreaming of what I was missing by not being allowed to join the Air Force.
Blog text (5) -
I was expected to make straight A's and go to secretarial school.
Blog text (24) -
Not only was she the first member of her family to graduate from high school, but she had gone on to secretarial school as well.
Fiction book (1997) -
In June 1966, I graduated from high school and went straight into secretarial school.
Blog text (5) -
They sent me to secretarial school and then I applied for a job at Consolidated.
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A woman from a poor Irish family, she'd worked her way through secretarial school and had become an assistant director of admissions at Harvard, over an hour's commute away.
Fiction book (1997) -
After graduating from high school, she decided to attend secretarial school to learn essential office skills.
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He completed a program at secretarial school that prepared him for a career as an executive assistant.
Synonyms
5
3.0
A school where students learn practical skills for a specific job
4
3.2
A school that teaches practical skills for jobs like car repair or computer work
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'secretarial' (related to the work of a secretary) + 'school' (an educational institution) yields a school for secretarial training. This adjective+noun compound follows common, cross-linguistic patterns and should be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The name secretarial school comes from a simple idea: a school where people learned to be a secretary, practising typing, shorthand and filing. So today the phrase means 'a school that teaches secretarial skills'.