truancy

English

Etymology

truant +‎ -cy

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ʊənsi

Noun

truancy (countable and uncountable, plural truancies)

The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from attending school.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:truancy

Derived terms

antitruancy

Translations

the act of shirking from responsibilities and duties

Catalan: absentisme
Chinese:
Mandarin: 逃學 (zh), 逃学 (zh) (táoxué), 曠課 (zh), 旷课 (zh) (kuàngkè)
Dutch: spijbelen (nl), schoolverzuim (nl) n
French: absentéisme (fr) m
German: Schwänzen (de) n, Schwänzerei 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)
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)
Spanish: absentismo (es), ausentismo
Swedish: skolk (sv) n (act of being absent from school)

See also

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