truancy
['tru:.ənt.si/ (UK also truanting)
noun uncountable
■the problem or situation of children being absent from school regularly without permission; when children play truant 翘课，旷课（小孩经常未经许可而缺席课堂的问题或情况）•My daughter's school has very good exam results and hardly any truancy.我女儿所在的学校考试成绩很好，几乎没有逃学的。 •Truanting was a serious problem in a fifth of the schools surveyed.在1／5被调查的学校中，逃学是一个严重问题。 |