Definitions for dropout

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IPA: /ˈdrɒpˌaʊt/

Dropout is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in dropout (dooprtu).

Definitions for dropout

noun

1. an act or instance of dropping out.
2. a student who withdraws before completing a course of instruction.
3. a student who withdraws from high school after having reached the legal age to do so.
4. a person who withdraws from established society, especially to pursue an alternate lifestyle.
5. a person who withdraws from a competition, job, task, etc.:
6. Rugby. a drop kick made by a defending team from within its own 25-yard (23-meter) 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.

Origin of dropout

1925-30, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase drop out

Examples for dropout

Fifteen percent of American high schools, known as “dropout factories,” produce more than half of American dropouts.

“It sounds drastic, but literally the future of our nation is at stake if we do not correct it,” Powell says of the dropout rate.

It sounds drastic,” says Powell, “but literally the future of our nation is at stake if we do not correct the dropout rate.

But the political class and education experts are hardly united on how to address the dropout crisis.

He calls Kline the champion of for-profit colleges, which have a dropout rate “worse than celebrity rehab.”

By replacing each team with a famous alumnus (or dropout), filling out a bracket has never been easier.

The dropout rate of Arab students at the Technion, Israel's technology institute, went from 28 percent to 12 percent.

The economy absorbed the majority of the dropout population.

He and (dropout) Michele Bachmann added up to about 14 percent in these polls.