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direct grant grammar school

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English

Syllables
di-rec-t -grant -gram-mar school
IPA
38
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
6
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of selective secondary school in the United Kingdom that existed between 1945 and 1976, having one quarter of the places directly funded by central government, while the remainder attracted fees, some paid by a Local Education Authority and some by the pupils' parents or guardians.

British usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

direct grant grammar schools (plural)

Questions

What does direct grant grammar school mean?
A kind of selective secondary school in the United Kingdom that existed between 1945 and 1976, having one quarter of the places directly funded by central government, while the remainder attracted fees, some paid by a Local Education Authority and some by the pupils' parents or guardians.

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