tuition

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Meaning

Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.

Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough.

The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction.

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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Edmund Burke

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me. Jesse Ventura

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved. Ron Reagan

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people. Harriet Harman

Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college. Elton Gallegly

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. Fred Allen

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