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noun

the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university: The college will raise its tuition again next year.

teaching or instruction, as of pupils: a school offering private tuition in languages.

Archaic. guardianship or custody.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English tuicion a looking after, guarding < Latin tuitiōn- (stem of tuitiō), equivalent to tuit(us) (past participle of tuērī to watch; compare tutelage) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms

tu·i·tion·al, tu·i·tion·ar·y

[too-ish-uh-ner-ee, tyoo-] , adjective

tu·i·tion·less, adjective

self-tu·i·tion, noun

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Example Sentences

If you have paid college tuition recently, you probably have questions.

There are no tuition fees, nor is selection of students on entry allowed, apart from the required baccalauréat.

Beyond the cultural grounding that's served here, tuition is free and kids are fed breakfast and lunch daily.

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If you have paid college tuition recently, you probably have questions.

There are no tuition fees, nor is selection of students on entry allowed, apart from the required baccalauréat.

Beyond the cultural grounding that's served here, tuition is free and kids are fed breakfast and lunch daily.

And students now struggling with that debt load should demand a full tuition refund.

They are considered public schools in the sense that they are paid for by taxpayer money and are usually tuition free.

Despite the outcry over high college costs, tuition rates are still going up.

Tuition is rising almost everywhere for almost every degree, and faster than inflation.

We're willing to pay his tuition to boot camp if it is deemed necessary.

The rising cost of college tuition has many parents wondering how they will finance their children's education.

Student borrowing has been increasing in recent years, as tuition has grown faster than inflation or family income.

The student body is diverse and, with low tuition fees, the school is generally reckoned to be excellent value for money.

Doctoral students in the sciences generally do not pay a penny for tuition.

Most colleges have many reasons to raise tuition and none to lower it.

My parents kept paying the local taxes in addition to my private school tuition.

His mother recalls him fretting about the eventual cost of college tuition for his children.

The private schools without big endowments are in a tight spot: they need tuition to pay their operating costs.

It means my cousins ask me to pay their college tuition.

Tuition fees were scrapped in the name of access for all.

In too many families, its plans for tuition fees are seen as an attack on aspiration.

College tuition continues to rise by more than the.

Tuition at public four-year colleges jumped this year at the highest.

They even spaced us out four years apart so they'd have enough money to pay tuition for each of.

Bucks readers weigh in on their experience with tuition refund insurance.

Net tuition and fees are the sum of total tuition and fees.

Their strongest card is that the college grants deliver a standard of tuition that is the envy of universities worldwide.

The benefits they enjoy can be great, but the investment is as well, as any parent who has signed a tuition check will attest.

The report describes a link between lower tuition and higher percentages of students enrolled in two-year colleges.

Sewanee's move is a fine way to market that campus but it does nothing to address the reasons tuition is going up and up.

Family incomes are stagnant, but tuition keeps going up.

Yet they shy away from any alternative solutions, such as tuition fees.

Princeton sets its tuition and fees for the coming academic year.

In this egalitarian society, tuition fees have always been a taboo.

Administrators say public universities are charging fees because legislatures shy away from tuition increases.

And the schools keep charging higher tuition and admitting more students.

But language entrepreneurs are finding alternative ways to meet the rising demand for tuition.

The tuition is too high to affordBesides, the return becomes less, that is the salary.

The cost of tuition at public universities is soaring.

They get big tuition because employers are picking up the tab.

Tuition is free but teachers make few demands, so many students turn to political activism.

European students should complain when their governments charge higher tuition rates.

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World English Dictionary

tuition (tjuːˈɪʃən)

—n
1.	instruction, esp that received in a small group or individually
2.	the payment for instruction, esp in colleges or universities

[C15: from Old French tuicion, from Latin tuitiō a guarding, from tuērī to watch over]

tu'itional

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

tuition

1436, "protection, care, custody," from Anglo-Fr. tuycioun (1292), from O.Fr. tuicion "guardianship," from L. tuitionem (nom. tuitio) "a looking after, defense, guardianship," from tuitus, pp. of tueri "to look after" (see tutor). Meaning "action or business of teaching pupils"

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is recorded from 1582. The meaning "money paid for instruction" (1828) is probably short for tuition fees, in which tuition refers to the act of teaching and instruction.

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