preparatory_school has definitions from the field of education
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[ noun ] (education) a private secondary school

Synonyms

prep_school

Used in print

(Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)

There one finds concentrated in a comparatively small area the chief universities , colleges , and preparatory_schools of the United_States .

He was referring not_only to the general college situation but more especially to the preparatory_schools .

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