décrochage

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /de.kʁɔ.ʃaʒ/
Audio (Paris) (file)

Noun

décrochage m (plural décrochages)

(aeronautics) stall, loss of lift
(Quebec) the action of dropping out of school prematurely

Usage notes

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

“décrochage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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