community college

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   a nonresidential junior college offering a curriculum fitted to the needs of the community

   Broaderjunior college

Questions about community college

What does community college mean?

community college means "a nonresidential junior college offering a curriculum fitted to the needs of the community".

Is community college a common word?

community college is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.