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Definition of truants:

(adj) : (specifically) Of a student: absent from school without permission.
(n) : (specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
(adj) : Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
(n) : An idle or lazy person; an idler.
(v) : (intransitive) Also used with the impersonal pronoun it (dated): to shirk or wander from business or duty; (specifically) of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
(n) : (obsolete) Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.
Definition of truants:

(adj) : (specifically) Of a student: absent from school without permission.
(n) : (specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
(adj) : Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
(n) : An idle or lazy person; an idler.
(v) : (intransitive) Also used with the impersonal pronoun it (dated): to shirk or wander from business or duty; (specifically) of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
(n) : (obsolete) Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.
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