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dropout.

Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course

    countable · uncountable
    The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts.
  2. Someone who has opted out of conventional society.

    countable · uncountable
  3. One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.

    countable · uncountable
  4. The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.

    countable · uncountable
  5. A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.

    countable · uncountable
  6. Momentary loss of an electronic signal.

    countable · uncountable
  7. A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Deverbal from drop out.

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