Definition of re-education in English:
re-education
noun riːˌɛdjʊˈkeɪʃ(ə)nriˌɛdʒəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
mass nounEducation or training to change someone's beliefs or behaviour.
a programme of rehabilitation and re-education for prisoners
Example sentencesExamples
- They never denounced their parents or spent years of "reeducation" shoveling pig shit with farmers.
- The young men, scions of reactionary families, are sent to the remote Phoenix Mountains for re-education.
- The person concerned has been sent to a labour camp for re-education.
- His pictures range from from rural reeducation centres to prominent political figures.
- The new Laotian government sent many Hmong to harsh reeducation camps.
- I get a polite but firm call from some PR person who invites me up for a day of reeducation.
- The book is about two boys exiled to the countryside for "re-education".
- The situation became even more sinister when the squatters began to kidnap black farm workers' children for 're-education'.
- Homosexuals know a thing or two about being sent for therapy or reeducation to have their attitudes straightened out.
- She led a massive reeducation of the chain's 35,000 employees.
Definition of re-education in US English:
re-education
nounriˌɛdʒəˈkeɪʃ(ə)nrēˌejəˈkāSH(ə)n
Education or training to change someone's beliefs or behavior.
a program of rehabilitation and re-education for prisoners
Example sentencesExamples
- The book is about two boys exiled to the countryside for "re-education".
- She led a massive reeducation of the chain's 35,000 employees.
- The young men, scions of reactionary families, are sent to the remote Phoenix Mountains for re-education.
- The person concerned has been sent to a labour camp for re-education.
- Homosexuals know a thing or two about being sent for therapy or reeducation to have their attitudes straightened out.
- I get a polite but firm call from some PR person who invites me up for a day of reeducation.
- The new Laotian government sent many Hmong to harsh reeducation camps.
- The situation became even more sinister when the squatters began to kidnap black farm workers' children for 're-education'.
- His pictures range from from rural reeducation centres to prominent political figures.
- They never denounced their parents or spent years of "reeducation" shoveling pig shit with farmers.