Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with school in American Collocation
school
noun
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
US
/skul/
begin to go to school
enter
start
I passed the entrance examination and entered the school in 1931.
go to school
attend
be at
go to
About 82 per cent of young entrants to undergraduate courses had attended such schools.
stop going to school
finish
leave
After finishing secondary school, Eisenstein enrolled at an institute for Civil Engineering.
stop going to school before the usual age
drop out
She got involved in drugs, and dropped out of high school before she graduated.
be forced to leave school because of bad behaviour
be booted out of
be expelled from
be kicked out of
I was on the verge of being kicked out of school for missing classes.