dropout
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noun
1.
an act or instance of dropping out.
2.
a student who withdraws before completing a course of instruction.
3.
a student who withdraws from high school after having reached the legal age to do so.
4.
a person who withdraws from established society, especially to pursue an alternate lifestyle.
5.
6.
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.
7.
Also called highlight halftone. a halftone negative or plate in which dots have been eliminated from highlights by continued etching, burning in, opaquing, or the like.
8.
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.
Also, drop-out.
Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase drop out
1925–30, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase drop out
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dropout (ˈdrɒpˌaʊt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a student who fails to complete a school or college course |
| 2. | a person who rejects conventional society |
| 3. | rugby drop-out a drop kick taken by the defending team to restart play, as after a touchdown |
| 4. | electronics drop-out a momentary loss of signal in a magnetic recording medium as a result of an imperfection in its magnetic coating |
| —vb (often foll by of) | |
| 5. | to abandon or withdraw from (a school, social group, job, etc) |
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Example sentences
Pushing a gifted potential-dropout to realize her full potential is, of course, a benefit to that student.
Event, status, and cohort dropout rates each provide a different perspective on the student dropout population.
However, the effect of this might get wiped out by an equally high dropout rate.
The state's high school students had among the lowest achievement-test scores and among the highest dropout rates in the country.
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