| 单词 | private business |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprivate business private business n. Eton College slang extra tuition. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > systematic or formal teaching > [noun] > extra tuition private business1868 1868 Times 25 June 10/4 Their tutor used to have a class list of his own for what was called private business, where the ordinary studies of the school were made to give way in favour of English essays. 1900 J. S. Farmer Public School Word-bk. 158 Private-business,..extra work with the tutor. 1979 D. Newsome On Edge of Paradise ii. 87 Half-an-hour's preparation for his Private Business lecture on Napoleon. 1995 Evening Standard (Nexis) 14 June 22 Two nights a week boys take part in what the school regards as one of the jewels of its intellectual crown—‘private business’, or tutorials. < as lemmas |
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