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truancy

truancy noun: the act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from attending school.

Noun

truancy (countable and uncountable, plural truancies)

  1. The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from attending school.
    Synonyms:
    beaking, bunking, bobbing, cutting class, dipping, ditching, dogging, going on the hop, going on the lang, going on the mitch

truancy meaning in Tamil and Urdu

truancy in Tamil

பள்ளித் தவிர்ப்பு

truancy in Urdu

کاہلی, کام چوری, سستی

Synonyms of truancy

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All synonyms of truancy

Forms of truancy

pluraltruancies

Origin of truancy

From truant + -cy.

Words formed from truancy

Questions about truancy

What does truancy mean?
Truancy means the act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from attending school.
What is truancy in Tamil?
Truancy in Tamil is பள்ளித் தவிர்ப்பு. See Truancy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is truancy?
Truancy is a noun.
What is the plural of truancy?
The plural of truancy is truancies.

Words near truancy in the dictionary

  1. tru dat
  2. tru-
  3. truage
  4. truages
  5. truancies
  6. truancy
  7. truand
  8. truands
  9. truant
  10. truant officer
  11. truant officers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: truancy (page history and authors); truancy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); truancy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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