truancy noun

/ˈtruː.ənt .si/ n [U] (UK also truanting)

Definition

the problem or situation of children being absent from school regularly without permission; when children play truant

My daughter's school has very good exam results and hardly any truancy.

Truanting was a serious problem in a fifth of the schools surveyed.

(Definition of truancy noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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