Drop Out

Definition: Drop Out

Drop Out

Verb

1. Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up".

2. Leave school or some other program prematurely; "Many students drop out because they are not prepared for our challenging program".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Education

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Drop Out

Learning

Drop out, leave school, quit school; graduate; transfer; take a leave.

Noncompletion

Drop out.

Crosswords: Drop Out

Having a pinball drop out of my ass is not a mistake (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg)

Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true See if it's true See if it's true Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true See if it's true See if it's true Now I've lost the thing That I had to say I know you're no good that way You send me, you wanted this, too Take your heart I think I get it now Well I just can't prolong Somehow I'll really do See if it's true Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true See if it's true Time was we'd drop out everything And there was a peace you'd bring But you didn't wanna go Talked about the hell we'd both been through Seemed like the thing to do Like something I needed to know See if it's true See if it's true (Seemed Like the Thing to Do; performing artist: Dino)

But one day the bottom will drop out, (I SHOT THE SHERIFF; performing artist: Eric Clapton)

Yes, one day the bottom will drop out. (I SHOT THE SHERIFF; performing artist: Eric Clapton)

Pull the drop out and (Between Me and You; performing artist: Ja Rule)

Smoke 'til ya drop out, that's my luck (Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!); performing artist: Ludacris)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Acquiring New ID : How To Easily Use The Latest Technology To Drop Out, Start Over, And Get On With Your Life (reference)

• Drop out! (reference)

• High School Drop Out (reference)

• I Hate School: How to Hang in and When to Drop Out (reference)

• The Social Security Swindle: How Anyone Can Drop Out (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Patients who drop out of clinical trials should be carefully followed. (references)

Many people who enter treatment drop out before receiving all the benefits that treatment can provide. (references)

But in Alzheimer's disease, according to one theory, something causes the beta amyloid to drop out of solution and form the insoluble plaques. (references)

Children

Kenya

The East African Standard newspaper reported in March that 8,000 girls drop out of school each year due to pregnancy. (references)

Algeria

Boys and girls generally receive the same treatment in education, although girls are slightly more likely to drop out. (references)

Uzbekistan

There also is evidence that earlier marriages among young rural women have contributed to a higher drop out rate for young women. (references)

Economic History

Burma

UN agencies have found that nearly 40 percent of children never enroll in school and two-thirds to three-quarters of Burmese school children drop out before reaching fifth grade. (references)

Egypt

Ninety-three percent of children enter primary school and about one-quarter drop out after the sixth year; in 1994-95, 87% entered primary school and about half dropped out after the sixth year. (references)

Ecuador

The public education system is tuition-free, and attendance is mandatory from ages 6 to 14. In practice, however, many children drop out before age 15, and, in rural areas only about one-third complete sixth grade. (references)

Women

Guatemala

More than 50 percent of urban girls and 81 percent of rural girls drop out of school. (references)

Bhutan

Among some groups, inheritance practices favoring daughters reportedly account for the large numbers of women who own shops and businesses and for an accompanying tendency of women to drop out of higher education to go into business. (references)

Worker Rights

Sri Lanka

A 1995 labor survey of the plantations indicated that half of all children in plantations drop out of school after the fourth grade, leaving a large pool of children between the ages of 10 and 15 available to pursue employment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "drop out": drop out from society ♦ drop out of contest ♦ drop out of school ♦ drop out of society ♦ drop out of usage. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afval (apostasy, apostatize, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, desert, drop, fall, fall away, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, secede, waste, windfall). (various references)

Albanian

person që braktis shkollën, braktisje e studimeve, braktis (cast away, cast off, chuck, desert, fall away, forsake, jilt, lay down, let go, relinquish, renounce, tek pupa, throw over). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هجر المدرسة, ‏هجر (break away, cast aside, dereliction, desert, desertion, disuse, emigratory, expel, expose, flee, forsake, immigrate, jettison, leave, neglect, quit, relinquish, renounce, scrap, skive, strand, surrender, throw, waive, weigh anchor), ‏توقف عن الدراسة, ‏تساقط (breakdown, collapse, fall, molt, moult, shake, shake off), ‏ترك الدراسة قبل الحصول الشهادة, ‏ترك الدراسة (skive), ‏ترك (break, cast aside, discontinue, ditch, drop, drop it, lay aside, leave, leave about, let go, neglect, peg, quit, rap, resign, resignation, sign away, strand, suffer, unhand), ‏سقط (bring down, cave, come off, dip, dive, down, drop, failed, fall, go by the board, settle, skip, spill, sprawl, squirt, topple, trip, tumble), ‏عاش على هامش المجتم, ‏طالب يترك الدرسة قبل الحصول على شهادة, ‏إنسحاب (cave, recession, retraction, retreat, retreating, secession, withdrawal), ‏إنسحب (draw back, drop, move back, pull back, pull out, push off, recede, retire, retreat, separate, shag off, slope, smooth away, stand down, step down, subtract, withdraw). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отпаднал студент, отпаднал ученик, отпадам (faint, fall off, languish, sag, sink, wilt). (various references)

Czech

zmizet (clear, clear off, come off, come out, decamp, disappear, make off, push off, vanish), vypadnout (bugger off, come off, come out, fall out, go out, make off, push off), odpadnout (drop off, fall away), odpadávání, odejít pro neprospìch. (various references)

Dutch

voortijdig schoolverlater (dropout, early school-leaver), voortijdig schoolverlaten, uitvaller (dropout), uitvallen (abandon, collapse, fall, fall off, give up, go on the blink, malfunction, renounce, resign, tumble down), niet meer meedoen, afvallen (apostatize, desert, drop, fall, fall away, fall off, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, secede, tumble down). (various references)

Esperanto

eliminiĝi. (various references)

Finnish

luopua kilpailusta (drop out of the race, give up the contest). (various references)

French

dériveur, défectionnaire (dropout), tomber (droop, drop), se retirer (draw back, draw off), renvoi aux 22 mètres, renoncer, impersévérant scolaire, impersévérant, abandonner (drop), abandon en cours d'études, abandon d'études. (various references)

German

Signalausfall (dropout, drop-out). (various references)

Greek 

εγκαταλείπω (abandon, abdicate, abnegate, desert, forsake, give up, jettison, maroon, quit, relinquish, renounce), αποσύρομαι από διαγωνισμό, τελειώνω το σχολείο πρόωρα. (various references)

Hungarian

lemorzsolódik (to drop away, to drop out, to fall off), lemorzsolódás (attrition, dropout), kiejt (enunciate, pronounce, to enunciate, to pronounce, to utter, utter, vocalize). (various references)

Indonesian

jatuh (drop off, fall, keel over, spill), gugur (abort, deciduousis, fall, miscarry). (various references)

Italian

ritirarsi (ebb, flinch, go back on, neap, pull back, recede, retire, retreat, shrink, stand down, withdraw). (various references)

Pig Latin

opdray outay.(various references)

Portuguese

cair for a (beat it, buzz off), adormecer (doss, fall asleep, go numb, sleep). (various references)

Romanian

renunţa (discard, disclaim, give up, relinquish, surrender), lãsa afarã (bolt out). (various references)

Russian 

выбывший, выбывать (bow out), выпасть, исчезнуть (disappear, do a guy, go down the drain, steal away), исчезать (die down, disappear, evanesce, evanish, evaporate, fall away, flee, go, pass off, self-destruct, slip, vanish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odustati (abjure, backtrack, baulk, drop, give up, lay off, pass up, quit, recede, remise, scratch, withdraw), napustiti (abandon, cast off, desert, desolate, drop, fall away, forsake, give away, jilt, leave, quit, run out, take leave of, throw over, vacate, walk out), maloletnik koji se ispisao iz škole (dropout), istupiti (come out, resign). (various references)

Spanish

desprenderse (become detached, break away, break off, come away, come off, drop off, fall away, fall off, fall out, fly off), desertore, deserción (abandonment, apostasy, defection, desertion), dejar de ser miembro, dejar de asistir, darse de baja (abdicate, quit, resign), separarse (break, break away, break off, break up, come asunder, come away, disjoin, divide, drop off, fly off, part, secede, separate, split), retirarse por (back off, back out, stand down), marginarse (freak out), ahorcarse (hang, hang oneself), abandono de estudios, abandonar estudios, abandonar (abandon, bolt, break, call off, cast away, cede, chuck, clear away, come off, come up, desert, ditch, drop, flee, forsake, give in, give up, give way, iron out, jack in, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, tear down, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield). (various references)

Swedish

dra sig ur (cry off, declare off, pull away), sluta (be through with, cease, close, come to an end, conclude, discontinue, drop it, end, end up, expire, finish, finish off, finish up, fold up, give over, leave off, let up, quit, re-energise, re-energize, sag, stop, stop it, terminate, turn out), hoppa av (defect, desert, fink, opt out), falla ut (empty, fall out, pour into). (various references)

Turkish

okulu bırakmak, bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, jilt, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put away, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out). (various references)

Ukrainian

вибувати, пропускати (balk, leave out, let by, let through, miss out, omit, outlet, overjump, overleap, overlook, pass over, pass through, skip, waste). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dropout, outdrop.

-1 letter: uproot, uropod.

-2 letters: droop, dropt, odour, outdo, proud, troop.

-3 letters: door, dorp, dour, drop, duro, odor, ordo, pood, poor, port, pour, pout, prod, rood, root, roto, roup, rout, toro, tour, trod, trop, turd, updo.

-4 letters: dor, dot, duo, dup, oot, opt, ort, oud, our, out, pod, pot, pro, pud, pur, put, rod, rot, rut.

+1 letter: dropouts, outdrops, uprooted.

+2 letters: coproduct, outpoured.

+3 letters: coproducts, outcropped, outdropped, outpowered, outproduce, production.

+4 letters: computerdom, outdropping, outproduced, outproduces, outpromised, photoreduce, proctodaeum, productions, profoundest, rustproofed.

+5 letters: computerdoms, coproduction, counterposed, outperformed, outproducing, outreproduce, photoproduct, photoreduced, photoreduces, proctodaeums, productional, reproduction, uprootedness.