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scholarship

 noun
     
Related topics: Education
schol‧ar‧ship
1 [countable]SE an amount of money that is given to someone by an educational organization to help pay for their education
scholarship to
She won a scholarship to Iowa State University.
on a scholarship
He attended college on a drama scholarship.
2 [uncountable] the knowledge, work, or methods involved in serious studying:
Her latest publication is a fine piece of scholarship.
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