décrochage
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
décrochage m (plural décrochages)
- (aeronautics) stall, loss of lift
- (Quebec) the action of dropping out of school prematurely
Usage notes edit
- The sense dropping out is used mostly of dropouts who give up school at the secondary or CEGEP level without acquiring a professional or higher education.
Further reading edit
- “décrochage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.