TRUANT


Meaning of TRUANT in English

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

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