dropout

décrocheur scolaire

Personne qui quitte l’école ou l’université avant d’avoir terminé ses études.

En anglais simple : Someone who leaves school or college before finishing their course.

• He is a college dropout.
• The programme helps school dropouts return to education.
• She succeeded in business despite being a university dropout.

Contraires : graduate

Expressions courantes : school dropout, college dropout, dropout rate

abandon, participant retiré

Personne qui cesse soudain de participer à quelque chose, ou fait de cesser d’y participer.

En anglais simple : Someone who suddenly stops taking part in something, or the act of stopping.

• The study had three dropouts.
• A high dropout rate made the trial difficult to complete.
• The team replaced a last-minute dropout before the competition.

Synonymes : withdrawal

Expressions courantes : study dropout, participant dropout, dropout rate

marginal

Personne qui choisit de ne plus suivre les façons habituelles de vivre et de travailler dans la société.

En anglais simple : Someone who chooses to stop following the usual ways of living and working in society.

• He became a dropout and joined a commune.
• These dropouts preferred a simpler life outside the city.
• She described herself as a dropout from conventional society.

Expressions courantes : social dropout, dropout lifestyle

perte de signal

Partie abîmée d’un enregistrement ou d’un disque qui provoque une brève interruption du son, des images ou des données.

En anglais simple : A damaged part of a recording or disk that causes a short gap in sound, pictures, or data.

• A dropout interrupted the recorded sound.
• The old tape has several dropouts.
• Damaged sections of the disk caused data dropouts.

Expressions courantes : tape dropout, audio dropout, brief dropout