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truancy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hooky |
| Type of | nonattendance |
| Derivation | truant |
Examples of truancy
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Now in its 10th year, the program is reserved for the most serious truancy cases.
From the ocregister.com
Reducing truancy results in a big payoff to both our schools and our communities.
From the signonsandiego.com
Last year, 1,853 truancy petitions were filed in court, according to officials.
From the tennessean.com
The curfew sweep came two months after a truancy sweep in the same neighborhoods.
From the ocregister.com
His school board goals are to increase the graduation rate and prevent truancy.
From the denverpost.com
Other problems in local schools include low test scores and high truancy rates.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Never mind the additional savings realized by reducing truancy and delinquency.
From the orlandosentinel.com
A truancy court already operates in several schools with local judges taking part.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Supporters say the lack of paid sick leave contributes to poverty and truancy.
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- Failure to attend (especially school)
- (truant) one who is absent from school without permission
- (truant) no-show: someone who shirks duty
- Truancy is any intentional unauthorized absence from compulsory schooling. The term typically describes absences caused by students of their own free will, and usually does not refer to legitimate "excused" absences, such as ones related to medical conditions. ...
- Truancy is a dystopian novel written by Isamu Fukui, a New York City student in Stuyvesant High School, when he was 15 years old. ...
- Truant (stylized as truANT) is Alien Ant Farm's second album. It was released on August 8, 2003 by DreamWorks Records. The producers of the album were Stone Temple Pilots' guitarist and bassist Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo.
- (Truant) A juvenile between the ages of 6 and 17 who has over the legal limit of unexcused absences from school.
- (truant) R.L. Stevenson writes that "while others are filling their memory with a lumber of words, one-half of which they will forget before the week be out, your truant may learn some really useful art: to play the fiddle, to know a good cigar, or to speak with ease and opportunity to all ...
- Truancy is a measure of how often the user forgoes the recommended daily review of information in the application. ...
