truancy

noun
🔊/ˈtruːənsi/
🔊/ˈtruːənsi/
[uncountable]
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  1. the practice of staying away from school without permission旷课;逃学
    • Truancy rates at the school are very high.学校的逃学率很高。
    Extra Examples
    • a government campaign to cut truancy政府发起的一场减少逃学的运动
    • measures to combat persistent truancy in our schools我们各所学校对长期旷课行为的处理措施
    • parents who condone their children's truancy容忍孩子旷课的父母
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • persistent
    verb + truancy
    • combat
    • tackle
    • cut
    truancy + noun
    • level
    • rate
    • crackdown
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