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school-age

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See also: school age and schoolage

English

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Adjective

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school-age (not comparable)

  1. (Should we delete(+) this sense?) Being of an age during which attendance at school is customary.
    Synonym: school-aged
    He's no school-age child; he's in college now.

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Noun

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school-age (plural school-ages)

  1. Alternative form of school age.
    • 1879, William Ogle, “XXII. Observations on Outbreaks of Diphtheria in Rural Districts”, in William Howship Dickinson, Thomas Pickering Pick, editors, St. George's Hospital Reports, volume 9, London: J. & A. Churchil, page 716:
      One of the gloomy features of village-life is the absence of young men and young women from the scene. So soon as children have passed school-age, they are drafted off in large numbers into the towns for service or other employment.

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