truancy
/ˈtruːənsi
/noun [mass noun]
The action of staying away from school without good reason; absenteeism: fines to tackle truancy...
- Last year's figures were better, with one of the lowest growths in truancy for a long time, but still showed a slight increase.
- Going on holiday without a school's permission is tantamount to truancy, said the junior education minister.
- Other funds are aimed at developing alternatives to exclusion from schools if pupils are involved in bullying or truancy.
Synonyms
absenteeism, non-attendance, absence, playing truant, truanting
British informal skiving, bunking off, wagging
North American informal playing hookey, goofing off, ditching
Australian/New Zealand informal playing the wag
Rhymes
- psychiatric social work
- psychiatric social worker
- psychiatrise
- psychiatrist
- psychiatrization
- psychiatrize
- psychiatry
- psychic
- psychical
- psychical deafness
- psychical determinism
- psychical distance
- psychically
- psychical moment
- psychical research
- psychical researcher
- tetherball
- Tethys
- Tet Offensive
- Teton
- Teton Sioux
- tetr-
- tetra
- tetra-
- tetrachloroethylene