school assignment schoolwork | a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher |
art school | a school specializing in art |
Ash Can Ashcan school | early thentury United States painting, portrays realistic and sordid scenes of city life |
boardroom council chamber | a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) |
conference center conference house | a center where conferences can be conducted |
conference room | a room in which a conference can be held |
conference table council table council board | the table that conferees sit around as they hold a meeting |
day school | a school building without boarding facilities |
music school | a school specializing in music |
old school tie | necktie indicating the school the wearer attended |
reformatory reform school training school | correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders |
school schoolhouse | a building where young people receive education, the school was built in , he walked to school every morning |
school bell | a bell rung to announce beginning or ending of class |
school bus | a bus used to transport children to or from school |
school crossing | a pedestrian crossing where school children cross a street on the way to school |
school ship training ship | a ship used to train students as sailors |
school system | establishment including the plant and equipment for providing education from kindergarten through high school |
school schooling | the process of being formally educated at a school, what will you do when you finish school? |
doctrine philosophy philosophical system school of thought ism | a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school |
school newspaper school paper | a newspaper written and published by students in a school |
conference call | a telephone call in which more than two people participate |
textbook text text edition schoolbook school text | a book prepared for use in schools or colleges, his economics textbook is in its tenth edition, the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy |
learner's dictionary school dictionary | a dictionary specially written for those learning a foreign language |
conference group discussion | a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic |
press conference news conference | a conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebrity |
pretrial pretrial conference | (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried, more useful in civil than in criminal cases |
round table roundtable round-table conference | a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views, a roundtable on the future of computing |
school shoal | a large group of fish, a school of small glittering fish swam by |
Continuity Irish Republican Army CIRA Continuity Army Council | a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
Fatah Revolutionary Council Fatah-RC Abu Nidal Organization ANO Arab Revolutionary Brigades Black September Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims | a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in , has conducted terrorist attacks incountries, in the s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group |
Council of Economic Advisors | an executive agency responsible for providing economic advice to the President |
National Security Council NSC | a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security, supervises the Central Intelligence Agency |
Council on Environmental Policy | the executive agency that advises the President on protecting the environment |
legislative council | a unicameral legislature |
league conference | an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members |
school | a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers, the Venetian school of painting |
Ashcan School Eight | a group of United States painters founded inand noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life |
historical school | a school of th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms |
school | an educational institution, the school was founded in |
school | an educational institution's faculty and students, the school keeps parents informed, the whole school turned out for the game |
junior school | British school for children aged - |
infant school | British school for children aged - |
correspondence school | a school that teaches nonresident students by mail |
dancing school | a school in which students learn to dance |
direct-grant school | 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 |
driving school | a school where people are taught to drive automobiles |
business school | a graduate school offering study leading to a degree of Master in Business Administration |
dental school school of dentistry | a graduate school offering study leading to degrees in dentistry |
finishing school | a private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities |
flying school | a school for teaching students to fly airplanes |