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Academy is sometimes used in the names of schools and colleges, especially those specializing in particular subjects or skills, or private high schools in the United States.
If you want to be a musician, you go to the Royal Academy of Music.
...her experience as a police academy instructor.
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Academy appears in the names of some societies formed to improve or maintain standards in a particular field.
...the American Academy of Psychotherapists...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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