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Definition: School Year |
School YearNoun1. The period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: School YearSynonym: academic year (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: School Year |
| English words defined with "school year": 11-plus ♦ academic year ♦ eleven-plus ♦ first-year, fourth-year, freshman ♦ Half year ♦ junior ♦ Montem ♦ next-to-last ♦ prom, promenade ♦ quarter ♦ second-year, senior, sophomore ♦ third-year ♦ year. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "school year": Fiscal Operations Report and Application to Participate ♦ legal entity ♦ NYPPER ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ School,, School, Modal grade ♦ tenured graduate student. (references) |
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Business | The British school year is long, with most school children being in school until mid-July, returning in early September. (references) | |
Usually, automobile dealers utilize the advent of occasions such as the beginning of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, the start of a new school year, and the commencement of the summer holidays to offer special discounted deals. (references) | ||
In addition there is one pre-grade school year where students get one book. During 1999, the Government of Guatemala contracted three private firms to print 5 million textbooks for the 2000 school year. The school year in Guatemala runs from January to October. (references) | ||
Children | Switzerland | Some cantons offer a 10th school year. (references) |
Romania | In the 2000-01 school year, 4,053,328 children attended school, including kindergartens. (references) | |
Lebanon | UNICEF reported that in the 2000 school year, approximately 85 percent of children between the ages of 3 and 5, and approximately 98 percent of children between the ages of 7 to 11 were enrolled in school. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Yugoslavia | Under a November 2000 government decree, religious instruction was introduced as an elective subject in primary and secondary schools during the 2001-02 school year. (references) |
Jordan | For the 2000-2001 school year, the Government continued its policy of denying Iraqi children admittance to school unless such children are legal residents of the country or recognized as refugees by the UNHCR. (references) | |
Greece | Universities and technical institutes are required to create a certain number of places (0.5 percent) for Muslim students each year; 400 spaces were available for the 2000-01 school year, but only 35 Muslim students entered universities and technical institutes during the 2000-01 school year. (references) | |
Economic History | Burma | To get rid of the backlog, the university school year has been reduced to three weeks of class and three weeks of exams, which are apparently readily available for sale. (references) |
China | According to the American Education Research Center, in the 1999-2000 school year, the number of students studying in the United States from Mainland China reached 54,466 - a 13% increase over the previous year. (references) | |
Political Economy | SWITZERLAND | Children over 13 may be employed in light duties for not more than 9 hours a week during the school year and 15 hours otherwise. (references) |
Women | Oman | In the 1997-98 school year, female students constituted approximately 50 percent of the total number of students attending public schools. (references) |
Morocco | The 4.8 percent increase in primary school attendance this school year is attributable largely to the increased numbers of girls attending school. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Burundi | In practice children under the age of 16 in rural areas do heavy manual labor in the daytime during the school year. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | I hope that the legislation will be enacted in time for a permanent program to start with the beginning of the school year next fall. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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| Language | Translations for "school year"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سنة دراسية (academic year, scholastic year). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lukuvuosi (academic year), lukutie (academic year), kouluvuosi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | année scolaire (scholastic year). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schuljahr (session, year). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tanév. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | anno scolastico (academic year, session). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 年度 (fiscal year, term, year). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ね"ど (clay, fiscal year, term, viscosity, year). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oolschay yearay ano letivo (academic year). (various references) año escolar (academic year). (various references) skolår, läsår (session). (various references) năm học. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-l-o-o-r-s-y" | |
-2 letters: caloyers, charleys, choleras, chorales, coarsely, hoarsely, reschool. | |
-3 letters: aerosol, caloyer, charley, cholera, cholers, chooser, choosey, chorale, chorals, choreal, choreas, claroes, clasher, coalers, coolers, creosol, escolar, hoorays, hyraces, larches, loaches, oraches, oracles, recoals, roaches, roseola, scholar, shoaler, solacer, soroche. | |
-4 letters: ahorse, arches, archly, ashler, ashore, calory, carles, carols, cashoo, ceorls, chares, chaser, chelas, choler, cholos, choose, choosy, choral, chorea, chores, chyles, claros, clears, closer, coaler, coarse, colors, cooers, cooeys, cooler, corals, cosher, creasy, cresol, cresyl, eschar, halers, haloes, haoles, hayers, hoarse, hooeys, hooray, horsey, hoyles, lacers, laches, lasher, layers, leachy, locoes, looeys, looser, ochers, ochery, ochrea, ochres, orache, oracle, rashly, recoal, relays, roscoe, royals, scaler, scarey, school, schorl, sclera, search, shaley, shoaly, slayer, solace, sorely, yahoos. | |
-5 letters: aches, achoo, acres, acyls, alecs, aloes, arles, arose, aryls, calos, cares, carle, carls, carol, carse, ceorl, ceros, chaos, chare, chars, chary, chase, chays, chela, cholo, chore, chose, chyle, claro, clary, clash, clays, clear, close, cloys, coals, coaly, cohos, colas, coles, color, cooer, cooey, cools, cooly, coral, cores, corse, cosey, coyer, crash, earls, early, echos, escar, eyras, haler, hales, halos, haole, hares, harls, hayer, heals, hears, helos, herls, heros, hoars, hoary, hoers, holes, holey, hooey, hooly, horal, horas, horse, horsy, hosel, hoyas, hoyle, hylas, lacer, laces, lacey, larch, lares, laser, layer, leach, lears, leary, leash, lehrs, loach, lochs, locos, looey, loose, lores, loser, lyase, lycea, lyres, ocher, ochre, ochry, ocrea, oleos, orach, orals, orcas, orles, oyers, races, rales, reach, reals, relay, resay, rheas, roach, roles, roose, royal, sayer, scale, scaly, scare, scary, score, selah, serac, seral, shale, shaly, share, sheal, shear, sheol, shoal, shoer, shool, shore, shorl, shyer, slyer, socle, solar, sooey, sorel, yahoo, years, yechs, yores. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-l-o-o-r-s-y" | |
+3 letters: chlamydospore, chromatolyses, pyrocatechols. | |
+4 letters: chlamydospores, schoolmasterly. | |
+5 letters: geostrophically, ionospherically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 68 6F 6F 6C      59 65 61 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01101100 00100000 01011001 01100101 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c h o o l   Y e a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0068 006F 006F 006C      0059 0065 0061 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536974818178259716784 |
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