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TRUANCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does truancy mean?
• TRUANCY (noun)
The noun TRUANCY has 1 sense:
1. failure to attend (especially school)
Familiarity information: TRUANCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Failure to attend (especially school)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
hooky; truancy
Hypernyms ("truancy" is a kind of...):
nonattendance (the failure to attend)
Derivation:
truant (absent without permission)
Context examples
U.S. studies have reported that lead exposure causes what psychologists call externalizing behavior problems, such as aggressiveness and bullying, which may lead to truancy and even jail time as children get older.
(Lead in kids’ blood linked with behavioral and emotional problems, NIH)
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