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continuing education

continuing education noun: the ongoing educational efforts made by adults during the decades after all of their primary education and secondary education, as well as the main portion of their tertiary education (higher education), are finished; it is either largely or wholly self-education, depending on each person's circumstances; for workers in certain occupations, it is formalized, measured, and required.

Noun

continuing education (uncountable)

  1. The ongoing educational efforts made by adults during the decades after all of their primary education and secondary education, as well as the main portion of their tertiary education (higher education), are finished; it is either largely or wholly self-education, depending on each person's circumstances; for workers in certain occupations, it is formalized, measured, and required.
    • Near-synonym: LLL (“lifelong learning”)
    Synonyms:
    LLL

continuing education meaning in Tamil

continuing education in Tamil

தொடர் கல்வித் திட்டம்

Synonyms of continuing education

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Questions about continuing education

What does continuing education mean?
Continuing education means the ongoing educational efforts made by adults during the decades after all of their primary education and secondary education, as well as the main portion of their tertiary education (higher education), are finished; it is either largely or wholly self-education, depending on each person's circumstances; for workers in certain occupations, it is formalized, measured, and required.
What is continuing education in Tamil?
Continuing education in Tamil is தொடர் கல்வித் திட்டம். See Continuing education meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is continuing education?
Continuing education is a noun.

Words near continuing education in the dictionary

  1. continues
  2. continues on one's merry way
  3. continuest
  4. continueth
  5. continuing
  6. continuing education
  7. continuing on one's merry way
  8. continuing resolution
  9. continuing resolutions
  10. continuingly
  11. continuings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: continuing education (page history and authors); continuing education (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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