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DIRECT-GRANT SCHOOL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Formerly a school that charged tuition fees and also received government grants in return for admitting certain non-paying students who were nominated by the local authorities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("direct-grant school" is a kind of...):
school (an educational institution)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
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