TRUANT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of truant in English
play truant UK (US usuallyplay hooky )
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(Definition of truant from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
Examples of truant
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The police do not have a general power to return truants to school.
The suggestion about rounding up truants would also require very careful thinking before one could contemplate taking it any further.
Anyone who has worked with persistent truants knows that they often come from difficult, disrupted and unstable family backgrounds.
In many cases, that was my experience as a teacher in dealing with truants and their parents.
The percentage of time missed due to truancy is decreasing, and children are truanting for shorter periods.
They go out and about in the city, on a day-to-day basis, picking up truants and taking them back to where they should be.
By the former, the report means truants, and so on.
Truants are people who have all the broad social difficulties and truancy is related to juvenile delinquency, vandalism and other such behaviour.
In the built-up areas the problem is the congregation of pigeons which are either truants from captivity or their progeny.
I asked the person in charge of the centre how many truants there were.
Often they have never had their basic skills addressed professionally; they may have truanted from school or opted out of education.
I cannot believe that it will be in the interests of the truants themselves that their parents run the risk of serving time in prison.
I have been told of a case involving a friend of mine whose daughter persistently truanted from a very reputable school.
Children who have been excluded or who are truanting intimidate children when they leave school.
They tend to have truanted at school and as a result are poorly educated and trained.
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Translations of truant
in Chinese (Traditional)
逃學者，曠課者, 逃學，曠課…
in Chinese (Simplified)
逃学者，旷课者, 逃学，旷课…
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niño o niña absentista, faltar a clase, hacer novillos…
in Portuguese
criança que mata aula, gazeteiro / malandro…
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okul kaçağı, okulu kıran öğrenci, dersi asan öğrenci…
alumne, -a que fa campana…
der Schwänzer / die Schwänzerin…
учень, що прогулює уроки, прогульник…
تِلميذ مُتغَيِّب بدون إذْن…
wagarowicz/ka, wagarowicz…
studente, -essa che marina la scuola, (scolaro che marina la scuola)…
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