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Definition of Truancy
1. Noun. Failure to attend (especially school).
Definition of Truancy
1. n. The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.
Definition of Truancy
1. Noun. The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties — refers especially to school absentees. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Truancy
1. an act of truanting [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truancy
Literary usage of Truancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Problems of Child Welfare by George Benjamin Mangold (1914)
"truancy. Compulsory education laws have suffered much from non- enforcement.
In the first place, the number of attendance or truancy officers has been ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"PRACTICAL RELATIONSHIPS OF THE truancy OFFICER Henry J. Gideon, Chief, Bureau of
Compulsory Education, Philadelphia In phrasing the subject assigned me for ..."
3. Repressive Legislation of the Republic of South Africa by Elizabeth S. Landis, United Nations Unit on Apartheid (1905)
"Heredity may be a factor in truancy. The love of roving, the hatred of ...
The strong and domineering boy, prone to truancy, is sure to be a centre of ..."
4. A New Manual of Method by Alfred Hezekiah Garlick (1907)
"Heredity may be a factor in truancy. The love of roving, the hatred of ...
The strong and domineering boy, prone to truancy, 1s sure to be a centre of ..."
5. The Law of the Public School System of the United States by Harvey Cortlandt Voorhees (1916)
"truancy. — Attendance Officers. At common law truancy was not an offense, and is
now an offense only when made so by statute, ordinance or by-law.6 Although ..."
6. The Administration of Education in a Democracy by Horace Adelbert Hollister (1914)
"The truancy Problem. The truancy problem has been and still is a persistent one.
The care of this type of delinquency is not only expensive but it leads to ..."
7. The Work of the Teacher by Sheldon Emmor Davis (1921)
"Pupils' responsibility for attendance — truancy. ... One careful study estimates
the causes of truancy as follows: Fault of home 29% Dislike of school 26% ..."
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