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LAW SCHOOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does law school mean? 

LAW SCHOOL (noun)
  The noun LAW SCHOOL has 1 sense:

1. a graduate school offering study leading to a law degreeplay

  Familiarity information: LAW SCHOOL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LAW SCHOOL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A graduate school offering study leading to a law degree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

law school; school of law

Hypernyms ("law school" is a kind of...):

grad school; graduate school (a school in a university offering study leading to degrees beyond the bachelor's degree)


 Context examples 


Or they quit their job as a marketing director, applied to law school, passed the Bar, and now defend prisoners in the Innocence Project who were incarcerated unfairly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.

(Law, NCI Thesaurus)

A professional doctorate typically awarded by an accredited U.S. law school after successfully completing three years of post-graduate law study.

(Doctor of Law, NCI Thesaurus)



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