truancy in English

noun

1

the action of staying away from school without good reason; absenteeism.

he had a history of truancy and expulsion from school

synonyms: absenteeism, nonattendance, playing truant, truanting, playing hooky, skipping, booking out, disappearing act

noun

• absenteeism, nonattendance, playing truant, truanting, playing hooky, skipping, booking out, disappearing act
• hooky

Use "truancy" in a sentence

1. Truancy rates at the school are very high.

2. And which politicians have the highest truancy rate?

3. Earnhardt would have understood the mass truancy.

4. The authorities plan to come down hard on truancy in future.

5. These measures were seen as indirectly reducing condoned truancy.

6. Rates of truancy from school have only increased minimally.

7. The next meeting will address the problem of truancy.

8. Truancy is a term that generally refers to unexcused Absences

9. Is there any allowance made for long-term illness? or for condoned truancy?

10. 27 The authorities plan to come down hard on truancy in future.

11. My daughter's school has very good exam results and hardly any truancy.

12. The legal definition of truancy incorporates no distinction between its different forms.

13. Downstream results included greater enrolment, less dropout and absenteeism, and truancy in general.

14. Fifteen miles away in Witney Henry Box School reported just three percent truancy.

15. Truancy rates have dropped 42 percent, and daytime crime rates have dropped 35 percent.

16. Tackling truancy Schools reported using a range of strategies to tackle absence from school.

17. We will publish test results, exam results and truancy rates and ensure that there is regular independent inspection.

18. There is a tendency amongst teachers and EWOs to blame parents for most instances of truancy.

19. He said the Government was providing ￡10 million for truancy projects in 74 local education authorities.

20. At school they shared truancy escapades, which developed a more interesting potential once they had matriculated.

21. This point is considered further below. Legal intervention in truancy cases has focused on the notion of parental responsibility.

22. To combat truancy schools need the active co-operation of parents and good information about patterns of non-attendance.

23. The authorities have responded to complaints of increasing truancy with legislation apparently strict but in practice almost ineffective.

24. Time off, leave, break, vacation, recess, truancy, absenteeism, nonappearance, nonattendance A bundle of letters had arrived for me in my Absence. 2

25. They're reporting five things: drop of truancy to almost zero, attending parent-teacher meetings -- which nobody did and now almost everybody does -- drop in discipline problems, increase in student participation.

26. Biddance," "furtherance," "guidance," "hin-drance," "riddance," and "utterance." The alternate ending -ncy is observed in "flip-pancy" and "truancy." All our verbs here are of the first conjugation because of the influence of French, which levelled all present participles to …