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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

l'absentéisme scolaire

Pronunciation / Transliteration: l'absentéisme scolaire

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Truancy/ˈtruː.ən.si/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"L'école lutte activement contre l'absentéisme scolaire."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The action of staying away from school without good reason.

    "The school has introduced new measures to combat truancy and improve attendance."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'truandise', relating to a vagrant or beggar, originating from Old French 'truand' (beggar, vagabond). Over centuries, the meaning shifted from general idleness and vagrancy to the specific modern sense of staying away from school without permission.

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