dropout
/ˈdrɑpaʊt/
noun
- A person who leaves school, college, or a training program before completing it.
- The program helps dropouts earn their GED and find jobs.
- He was a high school dropout who later started his own business.
- She became a college dropout after her first year to travel the world.
- A person who rejects conventional society and lives outside mainstream culture.
- He left his corporate job to become a dropout and live off the grid.
- In the 1960s, many young people became dropouts and joined communes.
- The film follows a group of dropouts who build a self-sufficient community.
- A temporary loss of signal or data in an electronic device or recording.
- Video calls sometimes suffer from audio dropouts when the internet is slow.
- The technician fixed the dropout in the satellite signal by adjusting the antenna.
- The old cassette tape had a dropout that made the music skip.
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