Definitions

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  • noun A short, usually intensive course on a subject of study.

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  • noun A brief educational course

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mini- +‎ course

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Examples

  • Someone taught the few youngsters in our crowd coconut painting, and a long-time Cuban refugee lepidopterist taught a minicourse for ages eight to twelve at the community college.

    Ann Beattie's 'The Rock': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010

  • Someone taught the few youngsters in our crowd coconut painting, and a long-time Cuban refugee lepidopterist taught a minicourse for ages eight to twelve at the community college.

    Ann Beattie's 'The Rock': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010

  • At home, we bring our own putters-always a surprise to the attendantand play so often that we have punch cards at the local minicourse ten games earns you a free one and can whip through the eighteen holes at a lightning pace.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • At home, we bring our own putters-always a surprise to the attendantand play so often that we have punch cards at the local minicourse ten games earns you a free one and can whip through the eighteen holes at a lightning pace.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • At home, we bring our own putters-always a surprise to the attendantand play so often that we have punch cards at the local minicourse ten games earns you a free one and can whip through the eighteen holes at a lightning pace.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • At home, we bring our own putters-always a surprise to the attendantand play so often that we have punch cards at the local minicourse ten games earns you a free one and can whip through the eighteen holes at a lightning pace.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • We are subjected, for example, to a minicourse in the geography and topography of the city: "New Orleans is surrounded by water on all sides" -- as opposed to being surrounded on one side?

    Calamity and the City 2008

  • Russell wanted to create a packaged minicourse in black history, complete with film strip, record albums, and a booklet.

    THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

  • "We initiated the minicourse to fit the unstretched attention span, and grade inflation to flatter those we couldn't control."

    Book Randomness Tag! Cheryl 2005

  • Farther on down the road there is a chapter that is a minicourse in how to make the best possible decisions.

    The Pathfinder Nicholas Lore 1998

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