Meaning of academy in English

academy

/əˈkæd.ə.mi/ us

/əˈkæd.ə.mi/

an organization intended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school that teaches a particular subject or trains people for a particular job:

a military/police academy

the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

the part of a sports club that trains young players who might one day become part of the first team (= a sports club's best team):

youth academy The youth academy starts training talented young players from the age of eight.

The club's academy offered players from disadvantaged backgrounds discounts on new equipment.

a school in the UK that is not controlled by the local authority and receives its money directly from the central government

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(Definition of academy from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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academy

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/əˈkæd·ə·mi/

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a school that teaches a particular subject or trains people for a particular job, or an organization that supports art, literature, or science:

a military/police academy

(Definition of academy from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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In 1990, the struggle between the two camps revolved around admission to the highly prestigious, autonomous military academies.

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The sons of impoverished farmers poured into the military academies and increasingly turned against corrupt urban politicians.

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English folk music is similarly under-represented in the concert hall and in dance academies.

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He enjoyed visiting schools, military academies, museums, zoos, parks and scientific institutes.

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Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centur ies, scientific academies helped support potential adjudications by recording new research results and pr ior ity claims.

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They offered fewer subjects than comparable white academies, but provided tuition in washing and ironing, which might prove useful to girls for whom domestic service constituted a probable occupation.

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A casual look at the academies might give the impression that they were mostly social in nature, that they functioned as a pastime for bored aristocrats and ambitious letterati.

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Partly excepted from this crisis were some major national research centres at the national academies of sciences, but the crisis severely damaged regional and local institutions and heritage protection.

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Moreover, a close-knit social network exists among graduates of the different military academies, many of whom have taken impor tant posts in the military and elsewhere.

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The admissions criteria of these academies have provoked acrimonious debates about secularism and the role of the military in fashioning the country's political culture and educational policies.

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Is it to sit in our academies and insist that we know the truth, we are the experts who can say that it was not so?

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What about academies and agricultural societies, banks and bridges, charitable associations and churches?

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By about 1750, most scientific academies had established regular contact with one another, exchanging publications and occasionally collaborating on joint scientific projects requiring many scattered observers.

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Sponsors of academies are expected to play a key role in the strategic leadership of the schools they support.

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No provision for expenditure on technology academies was made in either 1987–88 or 1988–89.

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national academy

The tenders are to be let by mid-1996, and we hope that the national academy will be built fairly soon thereafter.

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naval academy

I had never before been in a naval academy.

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police academy

However, the eligible pool was skewed due to negotiations between the two parties in 1993 which permitted fewer ex-guerrillas in the very first senior officers' class of the police academy.

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研究院, 學會, 專科學院…

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