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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The time at which a school opens: as, nine o'clock is school-time.
  • noun The time in life passed at school.

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Examples

  • The school-time data come from the Education Department, which relied on information from the group that administers TIMSS.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jim Horn 2009

  • The school-time data come from the Education Department, which relied on information from the group that administers TIMSS.

    Preempting Duncan's Prevarications Jim Horn 2009

  • We are also resetting ourselves for the school-time routine and that takes a bit to adjust to after a summer of sleeping in and staying up late.

    adjusting again « Adventures in Juggling 2007

  • Yeah, this right, this problem very actually rather in Republic of Kazakhstan, when the 11th graduated students prepare their to ENT Edinyi National Test, this same to EGE and all students in high-schools spent their all free-time and school-time only for learning test without logic and thinking how this bad.

    Russian Students Protest Testing, American Style Jim Horn 2009

  • We are also resetting ourselves for the school-time routine and that takes a bit to adjust to after a summer of sleeping in and staying up late.

    17 « August « 2007 « Adventures in Juggling 2007

  • He stops at Rodwell Regis through the year: school-time and holiday-time, it is all the same to him.

    Dr. Birch and his young friends 2006

  • Accordingly, he found no appetite for breakfast; and, just about school-time, took a severe pain about his heart, which rendered it advisable that, instead of setting out to the grammar-school with Mark, he should succeed to his father's arm-chair by the fireside, and also to his morning-paper.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • It was to be an island in our troubles, a little holiday in our hard school-time, and I will not destroy it at its close.

    The Way We Live Now 2004

  • For many they bring an opportunity to catch up school-time lost in the turmoil of apartheid's dying days.

    SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE PRESIDENTIAL AND PREMIER EDUCATION AWARDS CEREMONY 1996

  • For many they bring an opportunity to catch up school-time lost in the turmoil of apartheid's dying days.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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