décrochage
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
décrochage m (plural décrochages)
- (aeronautics) stall, loss of lift
- (Quebec) the action of dropping out of school prematurely
Usage notes[edit]
- The sense dropping out is used mostly of dropouts who give up school at the secondary or CEGEP level without acquiring a professional or higher education.
Further reading[edit]
- “décrochage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.