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- adjective Not of or pertaining to a
college .
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Examples
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Forget the old-fashioned “vocational ed” classes that sent students on a decidedly noncollege track.
Career Academies Can Lead To Better Jobs Or A College Degree 2008
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But parents spend more time with their children than they did in the 1970s, and there was no increase in the college-noncollege gap.
Educated Mothers Get All the Credit, Everyone Feels the Heat 2010
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Forget the old-fashioned “vocational ed” classes that sent students on a decidedly noncollege track.
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For argument's sake, let's divide whites among college and noncollege voters in the same proportions as today.
The Emerging Stagnant Majority, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Obama has carried white noncollege voters only in Wisconsin, Vermont, and Utah; and Clinton didn't compete in the latter two.
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Obama won by 23 points among white, noncollege graduates who belong to a union, even as he lost by 18 points among all white, noncollege voters.
Mike Elk: My Grandmother Takes a Stand for Gay Marriage in Church Despite Loving Glenn Beck 2009
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Maryland state school superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick said the state official in charge of that effort also uses data, such as PSAT test scores, to help schools identify academically adept students who may have been overlooked for AP because they come from noncollege families.
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Odd as it sounds, money held for a child in a 529 college account affects his aid eligibility far less than money in his name in a noncollege account, such as a trust.
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The trade agreements over the last three decades have been deliberately designed to put manufacturing workers, and noncollege educated workers more generally, directly in competition with low-paid workers in the developing world.
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The predicted and actual result of this policy is to lower the wages of noncollege educated workers in the United States.
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