tuition
nounUK /tjuːˈɪʃən/ · CA, US /tuˈɪʃən/
Etymology From Anglo-Norman tuycioun, from Old French tuicion, from Latin tuitiō (“guard, protection, defense”), from tuēri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor.
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
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Australia, India, Malaysia, Singapore Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)
- tuition classes
- Tuition in the past was like taking medicine and you sent children for it only if they were doing poorly in a subject.2021 August 18, Qiu Guanhua, “Forum: Heavy reliance on tuition to boost performance is not healthy”, in The Straits Times, Singapore, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2022:
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Canada, Philippines, US A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a private school, boarding school, university, or college).
- The school’s tuition will increase by five percent next year.
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Archaic Care, guardianship.
- BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so I commit you— CLAUDIO. To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,— DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick. BENEDICK. Nay, mock not, mock not.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- Derived terms
- nontuition, tuitional, tuitionary, tuition centre, tuition fees