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home-schooling

home-schooling is the alternative form of homeschooling.

home-schooling is the present participle and gerund of home-school.

Meaning of homeschooling

Noun

homeschooling (uncountable)

  1. Teaching children at home instead of sending them to school.
    • 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.2014 March 3, Bill Mears, “Homeschooling family loses asylum appeal”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    home education

Questions about home-schooling

What is home-schooling the alternative form of?
Home-schooling is the alternative form of homeschooling.

Words near home-schooling in the dictionary

  1. home-sat
  2. home-school
  3. home-schooled
  4. home-schooler
  5. home-schoolers
  6. home-schooling
  7. home-schools
  8. home-set
  9. home-sets
  10. home-sewn
  11. home-sickness

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