private school

noun
a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.

Origin:
1820–30

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private school
 
n
a school under the financial and managerial control of a private body or charitable trust, accepting mostly fee-paying pupils

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Private school is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
Example sentences
They are still going to have the same private school and mortgage payments to
  make.
The extra annual outgoings look sizeable-except to those paying private school
  fees.
After three months she pulled the younger one out and enrolled her in a private
  school.
More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation.
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