Definitions
Person who leaves school or a program before finishing.
Word origin
Deverbal from drop out.
Used in a sentence
“The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts.”
“The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive.”
“To avoid excessive dropouts from the study, we wouldn't employ a single tutored group and a single control group that received no instruction at all.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Class leaver”7 letters
02“School quitter”7 letters
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