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vocational

[voh-key-shuh-nl]

adjective

of, pertaining to, or connected with a vocation or occupation: a vocational aptitude.

of, pertaining to, or noting instruction or guidance in an occupation or profession chosen as a career or in the choice of a career: a vocational counselor.

Origin:
1645–55; vocation + -al¹

Related forms

vo·ca·tion·al·ly, adverb

non·vo·ca·tion·al, adjective

non·vo·ca·tion·al·ly, adverb

qua·si-vo·ca·tion·al, adjective

qua·si-vo·ca·tion·al·ly, adverb

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Example Sentences

Several items in the news suggest that vocabularies are looked upon only or chiefly as of vocational value.

The vocational narrative persists in the face of these negative factors because it's still got a lot of truth.

The low status of the vocational path means that few able youngsters are tempted down it.

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Several items in the news suggest that vocabularies are looked upon only or chiefly as of vocational value.

The vocational narrative persists in the face of these negative factors because it's still got a lot of truth.

The low status of the vocational path means that few able youngsters are tempted down it.

Besides academic courses, the school also offers vocational programs for older students.

There are training courses at community colleges and vocational schools and in nondegree programs at universities.

During the day, teenagers at this vocational school learn how to make furniture.

Local vocational colleges are to be allowed to teach degree courses, with the exams set by universities.

Veblen dismissed vocational training, too, as utterly unacceptable.

Vocational courses that develop industry-specific skills will also see a surge in applications.

There may be scope for more vocational education programmes.

Federal funding is at risk for vocational and technical courses that may keep disengaged students in school.

We developed unprecedented co-operation programmes in vocational training and police capabilities.

The curriculum exposes students to a variety of vocational possibilities besides performance.

The government does not propose changing the visa program for international students seeking vocational education.

Three-fifths of all undergraduates in four-year colleges are pursuing vocational majors.

China is providing subsidies for large-scale vocational training programs.

First of all, a traditional bachelor's degree is not supposed to be a vocational education.

Perhaps focusing on vocational skills for drop-outs and prisoners would be a better use of their time and government resources.

The coalition should press on with its plans to revive vocational education for unacademic pupils:.

One reason is a lack of vocational training and few links between business and academia.

It might make sense to make unemployment contingent on one being enrolled in college or some vocational program.

The author seems to have discarded this concept at the outset, equating research university to vocational training school.

Money better spent for long term gain would've been to make vocational schools free for all citizens.

Producing high value added goods with a strong vocational training system in place can help the west bounce back.

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World English Dictionary

vocational (vəʊˈkeɪʃən^əl)

—*adj*
1.	of or relating to a vocation or vocations
2.	of or relating to applied educational courses concerned with skills needed for an occupation, trade, or profession: vocational training

vo'cationally

—*adv*

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"I think the most important education that we have is the education which now I am glad to say is being accepted as the proper one, and one which ought to be widely diffused, that industrial, vocational education which puts young men and women in a position from which they can by their own efforts work themselves to independence."

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