Etymology
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truant + -cy
Pronunciation
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truancy (countable and uncountable, plural truancies)
- The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from attending school.
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Derived terms
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Translations
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the act of shirking from responsibilities and duties
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: кръшкане n (krǎškane)
- Catalan: absentisme
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 逃學／逃学 (zh) (táoxué), 曠課／旷课 (zh) (kuàngkè)
- Czech: záškoláctví n, chození za školu
- Danish: pjækken, fravær (da)
- Dutch: spijbelen (nl), schoolverzuim (nl) n
- Finnish: pinnaaminen (fi), lintsaaminen (fi), (colloquial) rokuli (fi)
- French: absentéisme (fr) m
- Galician: please add this translation if you can
- German: Schwänzen (de) n, Schwänzerei f, Schulverweigerung f, Schulschwänzen n, Absentismus (de) m, Schulvermeidung f, Bummelantentum (de) n, Versäumen n, Schulversäumnis n, Schulschwänzerei f
- Greek: σκασιαρχείο (el) n (skasiarcheío) (school), φυγοπονία (el) f (fygoponía)
- Hungarian: lógás (hu), iskolakerülés (hu)
- Italian: assenteismo (it)
- Japanese: 不登校 (ja) (ふとうこう, futokō), 登校拒否 (とうこうきょひ, tōkō kyohi)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skulking
- Polish: wagarowanie (pl) n, wagary (pl) f pl
- Portuguese: absentismo (pt)
- Russian: прогу́л (ru) m (progúl) (act of being absent from school or work)
- Slovene: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: absentismo (es), ausentismo (es)
- Swedish: skolk (sv) n (act of being absent from school)
- Ukrainian: прогу́л m (prohúl)
- Welsh: please add this translation if you can
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