trade school

1. 1.

   a secondary school teaching the skilled trades

   Synonymsvocational school

   Broadersecondary school

Questions about trade school

What does trade school mean?

trade school means "a secondary school teaching the skilled trades".

What is another word for trade school?

Close synonyms include vocational school. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is trade school a common word?

trade school 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.