summer school

noun

study programs offered by a school, college, or university during the summer to those who wish to obtain their degrees more quickly, who must make up credits, or who wish to supplement their education.
a school offering such programs.

summer school

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

In about three weeks it seemed as if Id always taught summer-school at Jericho, and might have to keep on.

I have been giving a course of six lectures on psychology "for teachers" at a so-called "summer-school" in Colorado Springs.

He was roused by the sound of a dinner-horn such as they used to blow at a summer-school he had once attended in the Adirondacks.

"I've decided to stay over for summer-school, dear," he said to her one afternoon in mid-June.

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