dropout
or drop-out
an act or instance of dropping out.
a student who withdraws before completing a course of instruction.
a student who withdraws from high school after having reached the legal age to do so.
a person who withdraws from established society, especially to pursue an alternate lifestyle.
a person who withdraws from a competition, job, task, etc.: the first dropout from the presidential race.
Rugby. a drop kick made by a defending team from within its own 25-yard (23-meter) line as a result of a touchdown or of the ball's having touched or gone outside of a touch-in-goal line or the dead-ball line.
Also called high·light half·tone [hahy-lahyt haf-tohn] /ˈhaɪˌlaɪt ˈhæfˌtoʊn/ .Printing, Photography. a halftone negative or plate in which dots have been eliminated from highlights by continued etching, burning in, opaquing, or the like.
Also called dropout error. the loss of portions of the information on a recorded magnetic tape due to contamination of the magnetic medium or poor contact with the tape heads.
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How to use dropout in a sentence
The past year could result in a higher-than-usual dropout rate when districts open up full-time, in-person schooling.
Growing up on screens: How a year lived online has changed our children | Heather Kelly | March 5, 2021 | Washington PostThe self-taught college dropout used open-source information – such as data from social media, Google Maps, Google Earth – and help from a fellow community of fact-finding enthusiasts.
Bellingcat Has Revealed War Crimes in Syria and Unmasked Russian Assassins. Founder Eliot Higgins Says They're Just Getting Started | Madeline Roache | March 2, 2021 | TimeIn his sixth novel, Lee records the adventures of this college dropout in a wild tale that moves coolly between satire and thriller.
Chang-rae Lee’s ‘My Year Abroad,’ is a sweeping, twisty tale of love, family and hope | Frances Cha | February 18, 2021 | Washington PostOther variants that are not of concern also have that missing gene, and so it is not possible, without a full genomic sequence, to know if a dropout is actually a signal of the British variant.
CDC foresees spread in U.S. of highly contagious coronavirus variant | Joel Achenbach, Ben Guarino | January 6, 2021 | Washington PostThe shift to remote learning is resulting in “enormous dropouts and substantial learning losses” that will reduce the earning potential of a generation of students, the World Bank said in a recent report on South Asia.
Schools in India have been closed since March. The costs to children are mounting. | Parth M.N., Joanna Slater, Niha Masih | December 30, 2020 | Washington Post
He calls Kline the champion of for-profit colleges, which have a dropout rate “worse than celebrity rehab.”
Bill Maher Wants You to Meet—and Beat—Republican John Kline | Eleanor Clift | September 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe plays Wallace, a twentysomething medical school dropout who falls for Chantry (Zoe Kazan), a capricious animator/artist.
Daniel Radcliffe on Sex, ‘Harry Potter,’ and Complicated Relationships | Marlow Stern | July 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe engineering school dropout had sold corned beef to Africa and brokered some Brazilian diamonds with mixed success.
The Rise And Fall Of Brazilian Billionaire Eike Batista | Mac Margolis | November 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSteve Jobs is possibly the most famous college dropout and touted as our modern Thomas Edison.
On Wednesday's Late Show With David Letterman, Tom Brokaw dismissed Snowden as "a high school dropout who is a military washout."
The economy absorbed the majority of the dropout population.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai Nadin
British Dictionary definitions for dropout
/ (ˈdrɒpˌaʊt) /
a student who fails to complete a school or college course
a person who rejects conventional society
drop-out rugby a drop kick taken by the defending team to restart play, as after a touchdown
drop-out electronics a momentary loss of signal in a magnetic recording medium as a result of an imperfection in its magnetic coating
to abandon or withdraw from (a school, social group, job, etc)
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Other Idioms and Phrases with dropout
Withdraw from participation in a group such as a school, club, or game; also, withdraw from society owing to disillusionment. For example, He couldn't afford the membership dues and had to drop out, or She planned to drop out from college for a year. [Late 1800s]
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