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trainables

trainables is the plural of trainable.

Meaning of trainable

Noun

trainable (plural trainables)

  1. (dated, euphemistic) A mentally retarded person who can be trained or taught.
    • Toilet accidents for new children in the school are generally at least two or three times as frequent for trainables as they are for educables.1971, Harriet Eleanor Blodgett, Mentally Retarded Children: What Parents and Others Should Know

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Questions about trainables

What is trainables the plural of?
Trainables is the plural of trainable.

Words near trainables in the dictionary

  1. train-wrecks
  2. Traina
  3. trainability
  4. trainable
  5. trainableness
  6. trainables
  7. trainage
  8. trainagraph
  9. trainagraphs
  10. Trainas
  11. trainasium

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