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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant;

as, addicted to

truancy

truancy ‎(plural truancies)

The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties – refers especially to school absentees.

the act of shirking from responsibilities and duties

Catalan: absentisme
Chinese:
Mandarin: 逃學 (zh), 逃学 (zh) ‎(táoxué), 曠課 (zh), 旷课 (zh) ‎(kuàngkè)
Dutch: spijbelen (nl)
French: absentéisme (fr) m
German: Schwänzen (de) n, Schwänzerei f
Greek: σκασιαρχείο (el) n ‎(skasiarcheío) (school), φυγοπονία (el) f ‎(fygoponía)