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after-school, a. orig. U.S.
Brit. |ˌɑːftəˈskuːl|, |ˌaftəˈskuːl|, U.S. |ˌæftərˈskʊl|
[‹ after- prefix + school n.1]
attrib. Of, relating to, or occurring in a period (immediately) after normal school hours; spec. designating any of various schemes which provide childcare, organized activities, or supervised study after school hours, usually on school premises; (also) the venue for such activities. Freq. in after-school club, after-school program, etc.
1929G. M. Whipple in 28th Yearbk. National Soc. Study of Educ. (U.S.) i. 209 The After-School Club meets three afternoons a week... The numbers vary from ten to seventeen, the ages from five to eleven years... A typical afternoon may find one reading, two playing checkers, four doing carpentry. 1936N. Peyser in S. Glueck & E. Glueck Preventing Crime vi. 104 A separate staff of recreational workers and instructors was assigned, and a supervisory assistant was appointed to take over the direction of the after-school program. 1954J. A. C. Brown Social Psychol. of Industry viii. 229 Schoolboys of about ten years old were asked to volunteer to attend an after-school club at which they would be able to carry out various handicrafts such as model-making. 1978C. Trillin Alice, let's Eat 173 Abigail and Sarah and I would probably use it as our after-school hang-out even if it did not have the attraction of old-fashioned gum-ball machines. 1986Guardian (Nexis) 26 Mar. Around 15,000 children attend out of school schemes... Thousands more use after school clubs and holiday playschemes. 1990N. Baker Room Temperature (1991) iv. 32 My mother was teaching after-school art classes. 2000R. J. Evans Entertainment xi. 161 ‘Key Stage Three, GCSE, gotta get a good degree. My after-school activity makes my parents proud of me,’ he rapped. |