home study
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3.2
- noun
- /hoʊm ˈstʌdi/
:
estudio en casa
- In our four years of home study, we tried dozens of organizational strategies (i.e., creating daily, weekly, and monthly charts with boxes for each subject; setting morning as bookwork time; establishing project timelines and finish dates; etc.).
- home study program
- home study course
Examples
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The local Department of Social Rehabilitation Services (SRS) was ordered by Iowa to do a home study on Henry.
Fiction book (1994) -
The woman who conducted the home study concluded that Henry was a good person, a wonderful mother.
Fiction book (1994) -
Thanks to this Amish home study course, I'm doing quite well.
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Please review the wide range of ideas and possibilities that are available to you as an individual member of PSA for your home study program.
Academic text (1993) -
After completing a home study on early childhood education, she felt well-prepared to support her son's learning.
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He enrolled in a home study program to earn his high school diploma while working full-time.
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The social worker performed a detailed home study to assess the family's readiness for adoption.
Synonyms
15
3.7
A way of teaching children at home instead of school
1
3.9
A school that sends lessons by mail so people can study at home
How Structured
2
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a course conducted at home' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'home' (place of residence) with 'study' (learning), yielding the straightforward idea of studying at home. This noun+noun compounding is a common, compositional pattern in English (and other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase home study comes from older courses that sent lessons by mail so people could learn in their home and do their study there instead of going to a school. Those mail lessons let students read, do exercises, and send work back, so the phrase now means 'study at home'.