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View definitions for dropout

dropout

noun as in unconventional person

noun as in someone who gives up

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He calls Kline the champion of for-profit colleges, which have a dropout rate “worse than celebrity rehab.”

He plays Wallace, a twentysomething medical school dropout who falls for Chantry (Zoe Kazan), a capricious animator/artist.

The engineering school dropout had sold corned beef to Africa and brokered some Brazilian diamonds with mixed success.

Steve Jobs is possibly the most famous college dropout and touted as our modern Thomas Edison.

On Wednesday's Late Show With David Letterman, Tom Brokaw dismissed Snowden as "a high school dropout who is a military washout."

The economy absorbed the majority of the dropout population.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dropout, such as: beatnik, bohemian, hippie, flower child, free spirit, and nonconformist.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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