Dropout
noun
noun ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course countable, uncountable
"The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts."
- 2 someone who quits school before graduation wordnet
- 3 Someone who has opted out of conventional society. countable, uncountable
- 4 someone who withdraws from a social group or environment wordnet
- 5 One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so. countable, uncountable
"The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive."
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- 6 The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels. countable, uncountable
- 7 A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data. countable, uncountable
- 8 Momentary loss of an electronic signal. countable, uncountable
- 9 A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"Even though he was a school dropout, Tom was later very successful in life."
Etymology
Deverbal from drop out.