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Definition of "work-study" []

  • Of, relating to, or being an academic program that enables high-school or college students to gain work experience and make money while continuing their studies. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "work-study" in a sentence
  • "It's the need for comprehensive high school/junior-college-level work-study vocational education."
  • "Most likely if you did fill out one of those boring and long forms, you qualified for something like work-study, Pell Grants, or subsidized student loans .."
  • "Just hours before, during her lunch break, she had been squatting over the toilet in the sterile little bathroom at the campus health center, aiming the plastic cup between her legs to fill with urine, to deposit into a paper bag and leave with a work-study student at the front desk."
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