After-school

Definition: After-school

After-school

Adjective

1. Outside regular school hours; "a special after-school class".

Synonym: After-school

Synonym: after-school(a) (adj). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: after school child-minding service (european union), after-school agricultural training (food & agriculture, education), agricultural continuation school.

Crosswords: After-school

Specialty definitions using "after-school": National School Lunch Act ♦ Science Discovery. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	If this were an after-school special, ooh, you'd pay a bittersweet price for your little deceit. (Freakazoid!; writing credit: Alan Burnett; Paul Dini)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Accountability for After-School Care: Devising Standards and Measuring Adherence to Them (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	So my balanced budget triples the funding for summer school and after-school programs, to keep a million children learning.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"After-school" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "After-school" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	92.31%	24	71,196
Noun (proper)	3.85%	1	339,140
Noun (singular)	3.85%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	26	N/A

Language		Translations for "after-school"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Korean		다음에 학교. (various references)

Pig Latin		after-schoolay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-h-l-o-o-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: orthoclase.
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