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vestibule school en · NOUN

Etymology

From vestibule (“passage or hallway connecting to the interior of a building”) + school.

Meanings

1. A schooling facility organised within an industrial plant to teach specific skills to trainee workers.
   • However, when the number of trainees is large, vestibule schools are generally utilized; but when the number is small, on-the-job training is preferred. 2010, Raj Kumar, Human Resource Management: Strategic Analysis Text and Cases, New Delhi, page 148:
   • Large organizations frequently provide what are described as vestibule schools, a preliminary to actual shop experience.[…]Vestibule schools are widely used in training for clerical and office jobs as well a for factory production jobs. 2006, Y. K. Singh. H. S. Rabat, Human Resource Management, New Delhi, page 229:
   • […]he is then sent to the vestibule school to be trained for a certain position. 1924, Horatio W. Dresser, Psychology in Theory And Application, published 2005, page 329:

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