transcription, транскрипция: [ tru:ənt ]
( truants, truanting, truanted)
1.
A truant is a pupil who stays away from school without permission.
N-COUNT
2.
If a pupil truants , he or she stays away from school without permission.
In his fourth year he was truanting regularly.
VERB : V
• tru‧ant‧ing
Truanting is a small but growing problem in primary schools.
= truancy
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If a pupil plays truant , he or she stays away from school without permission.
She was getting into trouble over playing truant from school.
PHRASE : V inflects , oft PHR from n