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truancy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun truancy has 1 sense
- truancy(n = noun.act) hooky - failure to attend (especially school); Array is a kind of nonattendance
Derived form adjective truant1
CIDE DICTIONARY
truancy, n.
The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
truancy
AWOL, French leave, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, clock-watching, cut, day off, default, departure, disappearance, dodging, ducking, escape, excused absence, fleeing, furlough, goofing off, holiday, hooky, leave, leave of absence, leaving, malingering, nonappearance, nonattendance, running away, sabbatical leave, shirking, sick leave, skulking, slacking, soldiering, tax dodging, tax evasion, truantism, unexcused absence, vacation, welshing
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