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What is the noun for truant?

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truant
  1. One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Maybe the authorities should put some structures in place, like perhaps a truant officer to accost these truants.”
truancy
  1. The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from attending school.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A national crackdown on truancy has seen fast-track court action against parents of hardcore truants.”
      “John's sudden truancy from work raised concerns among his colleagues, as he had never missed a day without giving prior notice.”
      “It could be used in court at an application for a parenting order or during a prosecution for truancy.”
truand
  1. Obsolete form of truant.
truantry
  1. truancy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The child has this truantry when he plays at Indian, for he fashions the universe to his desires.”
      “Rather, the smell of the place urges me indeterminately, diffusedly, to truantry.”
      “Most of us are 19admitted into truantry by the accidents, merely, of our senses.”
truantship
  1. truancy
  2. Examples:
    1. “I would not have the master either frown or chide with him, if the child have done his diligence, and used no truantship therein.”
truantries
truancies
truands
  1. plural of truand
truants
  1. plural of truant
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  3. Examples:
    1. “If they were encouraging genuine truants back to school then I would be entirely supportive.”
      “A Swindon school has found a new way to beat the truants and encourage good behaviour.”
      “Known truants were staying in school and had been deterred from leaving school grounds.”
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