TUITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tuition mean? 

• TUITION (noun)
  The noun TUITION has 2 senses:

1. a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education)

2. teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)

  Familiarity information: TUITION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

tuition; tuition fee

Context example:

tuition and room and board were more than $25,000

Hypernyms ("tuition" is a kind of...):

fee (a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services)

Domain category:

didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

tuition; tutelage; tutorship

Hypernyms ("tuition" is a kind of...):

instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)

 Context examples 

Buck learned easily, and under the combined tuition of his two mates and François made remarkable progress.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

For example, you may be saving to send your tuition payment to your university or to make an investment in your business (if self-employed).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

With earliest day, I was up: I had my advertisement written, enclosed, and directed before the bell rang to rouse the school; it ran thus:—"A young lady accustomed to tuition" (had I not been a teacher two years?) is desirous of meeting with a situation in a private family where the children are under fourteen (I thought that as I was barely eighteen, it would not do to undertake the guidance of pupils nearer my own age).

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I always say to her, 'you must make yourself easy. The evil is now irremediable, and it has been entirely your own doing. Why would you be persuaded by my uncle, Sir Robert, against your own judgment, to place Edward under private tuition, at the most critical time of his life? If you had only sent him to Westminster as well as myself, instead of sending him to Mr. Pratt's, all this would have been prevented.' This is the way in which I always consider the matter, and my mother is perfectly convinced of her error.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

There was a certain richness in his complexion, which I had been long accustomed, under Peggotty's tuition, to connect with port wine; and I fancied it was in his voice too, and referred his growing corpulency to the same cause.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You may have sent in your tuition check, paid to have your floors fixed, sent in estimated taxes, or sent a deposit on your child’s music class for the coming season.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You might pay your college tuition, a large medical or dental bill, a tax payment, a down payment for a house (or a deposit on a lease for an apartment).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you work for a large corporation, ask your employer if you qualify for tuition matching, where your employer helps you get your degree by matching the funds you pay.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You may be sending a check for graduate school tuition, a student loan, or a down payment down on a house.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It also rules money you owe, such as for estimated taxes, tuition, a down payment on a house, and other large checks you might write that come up occasionally.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)