Definition of "technical school" []

• A vocational school at the secondary-school level. (noun)
• A post-secondary vocational school that trains students in a variety of skills, especially in the manual trades, health care, and computer technology. (noun)

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• "Sarnen in Switzerland their college educates about two hundred and forty boys, and at the technical school in the same place, carried on by the monks, the classes number usually between seventy and eighty scholars."
• "Tillet, who was then an alderman, "the docker sitting beside the duke," took me in a rowboat down the Thames on a journey made exciting by the hundreds of dockers who cheered him as we passed one wharf after another on our way to his home at Greenwich; John Burns showed us his wonderful civic accomplishments at Battersea, the plant turning street sweepings into cement pavements, the technical school teaching boys brick laying and plumbing, and the public bath in which the children of the Board School were receiving a swimming lesson – these measures anticipating our achievements in Chicago by at least a decade and a half."