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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tuition \Tu*i"tion\, noun [L. tuitio protection, guarding, from tueri, p. p. tuitus, to see, watch, protect: cf. F. tuition. Cf. {Tutor}.]
1. Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.
2. Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough.
3. The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction; as, tuition must be paid in full before graduation.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tuition
noun
1: a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education); "tuition and room and board were more than $25,000"
2: teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) [syn: {tutelage}, {tutorship}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "tuition": catechization, coaching, didactics, direction, edification, education, enlightenment, guidance, illumination, information, instruction, pedagogics, pedagogy, preparation, private teaching, programmed instruction, reeducation, schooling, self-instruction, self-teaching, spoon-feeding, teaching, training, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship
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