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noun a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education)
noun teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
originFrom Anglo-Norman tuycioun, from Old French tuicion, from Latin tuitiō (“guard, protection, defense”), from tuēri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor.
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