0 past simple and past participle of truant
1 Children who truant are regularly absent from school, usually while pretending to their parents that they have gone to school:
Often they have never had their basic skills addressed professionally; they may have truanted from school or opted out of education.
I have been told of a case involving a friend of mine whose daughter persistently truanted from a very reputable school.
They tend to have truanted at school and as a result are poorly educated and trained.
At present the children's hearings deal with children who have truanted.
Eleven per cent will be those at risk who have truanted, and so on, certainly needing advice but not from a specialist careers adviser.
At school, this typical young man truanted regularly.
Some of them cannot read or write, and many of them have truanted from school.
They considered what they were being taught as irrelevant and uninteresting and in many areas a high proportion of these pupils truanted or absented themselves from classes.
