dropout
辍学者,辍学,辍学人员,辍学学生
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- : an act or instance of dropping out.
- : a student who withdraws before completing a course of instruction.
- : a student who withdraws from high school after having reached the legal age to do so.
- : a person who withdraws from established society, especially to pursue an alternate lifestyle.
- : a person who withdraws from a competition, job, task, etc.: the first dropout from the presidential race.
- : Rugby. a drop kick made by a defending team from within its own 25-yard 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
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The past year could result in a higher-than-usual dropout rate when districts open up full-time, in-person schooling.
The self-taught college dropout used open-source information – such as data from social media, Google Maps, Google Earth – and help from a fellow community of fact-finding enthusiasts.
In his sixth novel, Lee records the adventures of this college dropout in a wild tale that moves coolly between satire and thriller.
Other variants that are not of concern also have that missing gene, and so it is not possible, without a full genomic sequence, to know if a dropout is actually a signal of the British variant.
The shift to remote learning is resulting in “enormous dropouts and substantial learning losses” that will reduce the earning potential of a generation of students, the World Bank said in a recent report on South Asia.
He calls Kline the champion of for-profit colleges, which have a dropout rate “worse than celebrity rehab.”
He plays Wallace, a twentysomething medical school dropout who falls for Chantry (Zoe Kazan), a capricious animator/artist.
The engineering school dropout had sold corned beef to Africa and brokered some Brazilian diamonds with mixed success.
Steve Jobs is possibly the most famous college dropout and touted as our modern Thomas Edison.
On Wednesday's Late Show With David Letterman, Tom Brokaw dismissed Snowden as "a high school dropout who is a military washout."