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truantcy

truantcy is the alternative form of truancy.

Meaning of truancy

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

Forms of truantcy

pluraltruantcies

Questions about truantcy

What is truantcy the alternative form of?
Truantcy is the alternative form of truancy.

Words near truantcy in the dictionary

  1. truant officer
  2. truant officers
  3. truant school
  4. truant schools
  5. truantcies
  6. truantcy
  7. truanted
  8. truanting
  9. truantings
  10. truantism
  11. truantisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: truantcy (page history and authors); truancy (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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