A community college is a local college where students from the surrounding area can take courses in practical or academic subjects.
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community college in British English
noun
1. British another term for village college
2. mainly US and Canadian
a nonresidential college offering two-year courses of study
3. New Zealand
an adult education college with trade classes
community college in American English
US
a junior college established to serve a certain community and sometimes supported in part by it, often emphasizing career, rather than academic, programs
Examples of 'community college' in a sentence
community college
I enclose my Confidence leaflet and the number for your local community college, and I wish you really good luck.
Isabel Wolff RESCUING ROSE (2002)
The man was a professor of English at a New Jersey community college and the woman worked for a state social welfare agency in Trenton.