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truancy

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Education
tru·an·cy /ˈtruːənsi/ noun [uncountable]  SEGO TO/ATTENDwhen students deliberately stay away from school without permission 逃学,旷课 the school’s truancy rate 学校的旷课率
Examples from the Corpus
truancyThey want a truancy hearing, which it says is the final notice.Chief Constable of Essex John Burrow added his voice yesterday when he warned that there was a connection between truancy and crime.These measures were seen as indirectly reducing condoned truancy.Legal intervention in truancy cases has focused on the notion of parental responsibility.Earnhardt would have understood the mass truancy.There is a tendency amongst teachers and EWOs to blame parents for most instances of truancy.Fifteen miles away in Witney Henry Box School reported just three percent truancy.Tackling truancy Schools reported using a range of strategies to tackle absence from school.
tru·an·cy nounChineseSyllable
from school stay when without students Corpus permission deliberately away


truancy
truancy /ˈtruːənsi/ noun [uncountable]
when students deliberately stay away from school without permission:
    the school’s truancy rate


tru·ancyBrE /ˈtruːənsi/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtruːənsi/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] the practice of staying away from school without permission 旷课;逃学