| 单词 | free-placer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree-placer free-placer n. British (now historical) a pupil who has been awarded a free place in a secondary school. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > pupil having fees paid town child1591 free-placer1899 1899 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 10 532/2 The free-placers did not require any sacrifice from the Board further than abandoning the collection of so-many school fees. 1910 Times Educ. Suppl. 6 Sept. 219/1 So large a proportion as twenty-five per cent. of ‘free-placers’, ex hypothesi boys or girls from working-class homes, in an average secondary school to which middle-class parents send their children. 1961 Economist 16 Dec. 1119/1 These ‘free-placers’ are sometimes brighter than the fee-payers. 1995 F. Inglis Raymond Williams (1998) iii. 45 The scholarship schemes came to life all across the country, and ‘free placers’ joined the children of the local traders, farmers, small gentry and any of the manufacturing households which couldn't rise to the fees of the new public schools. < as lemmas |
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