Definition of "colleges" []

• Plural form of college. (noun)

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• "The people of means sometimes had their children educated at home, and sometimes sent them to the little colleges which have since become Columbia and Princeton, —colleges which were then inferior to a good English grammar school."
• "Opponents counter that studying law in colleges is not necessary because interdisciplinary approaches to law have already found a home in law schools, which are increasingly hiring scholars who hold doctorates in other fields."
• "In effect, these well-intentioned subsidies have the perverse effect of shielding colleges from the kind of market discipline that would have forced them to hold down prices by constantly improving their productivity and efficiency, as happens in just about every other industry."