Definitions for dropouts

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dropouts drop·out

Spelling: [drop-out]

IPA: /ˈdrɒpˌaʊt/

Dropouts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 281 anagrams from letters in dropouts (dooprstu).

Definitions for dropouts

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 dropouts

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

Examples for dropouts

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.

“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.

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

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

The economy absorbed the majority of the dropout population.

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

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

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