"TAFE" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /teɪf/ Audio: en-au-TAFE.ogg [Australia] Forms: TAFEs [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪf Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} TAFE (countable and uncountable, plural TAFEs)
  1. (Australia, uncountable) Initialism of technical and further education. Tags: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: technical and further education Categories (topical): Education, Schools Translations (technical and further education): 技術與繼續教育 (Chinese Mandarin), 技术与继续教育 (jìshù yǔ jìxù jiàoyù) (Chinese Mandarin), ammattikorkeakoulu (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-TAFE-en-noun-FQsk3zDt Disambiguation of Education: 57 43 Disambiguation of Schools: 70 30 Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 81 19 Disambiguation of 'technical and further education': 89 11
  2. (Australia, countable) A college offering courses in technical and vocational education. Tags: Australia, countable Translations (college): 技校 (jìxiào) (Chinese Mandarin), ammattikorkeakoulu (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-TAFE-en-noun-H7Xsb-Lc Categories (other): Australian English Disambiguation of 'college': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: super TAFE

Inflected forms

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