homeschooling

See also: Homeschooling, home schooling, home-schooling, and Home Schooling

English

Etymology 1

Compound of home +‎ schooling.[1]

Alternative forms

Noun

homeschooling (uncountable)

  1. Teaching children at home instead of sending them to school.
    Synonym: home education
    • 2014 March 3, Bill Mears, “Homeschooling family loses asylum appeal”, in CNN‎[1]:
      A German family that claims it will be persecuted for homeschooling if sent back, lost its asylum request Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court and could be deported.
Translations

Etymology 2

From homeschool +‎ -ing.

Verb

homeschooling

  1. present participle and gerund of homeschool

References

  1. ^ “home-schooling, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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