to drop out
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3.0
- phrasal verb
- /drɑp aʊt/
- In fact, many give up school entirely and drop out when they are of legal age.
- drop out of school
- likely to drop out
- students drop out
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- Yeah, What film did Laura drop out of college to shoot?
- I said to my mom, I'm going to drop out of law school.
- But because there wasn't, I, I dropped out and I roamed around Asia.
- No, Tim Ryan had to drop out because we didn't have enough podiums.
- I could always, you know, quietly, you know, drop out of it after a year or two.
- It was just do algebra or drop out, and that was very difficult.
- Are women dropping out of the workforce in the same way?
- You know, Guy Kawasaki, he goes to law school and drops out after two weeks.
- Then at the end of that year I dropped out to to do Bitcoin things full time.
Examples
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I said to my mom, I'm going to drop out of law school.
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But when you drop out of college, you say, this isn't for me.
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Now you made a choice to drop out of College in order to do this.
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A few years ago, I dropped out of high school.
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I decided best that I should drop out for a while.
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You dropped out of school.
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Students tend to drop out of school for reasons other than academics.
Academic text (2011) -
He dropped out of high school.
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Males were more likely than females to drop out of high school or college and work toward achievements.
Academic text (2011) -
She decided to drop out of college to pursue her passion for art.
Synonyms
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1.0
To go away from a place, person, or group
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2.8
To stop taking part in a place or activity
228
3.4
To stop being involved in an activity or agreement
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1.5
To stop trying when something is too hard
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3.2
Leave an activity or agreement you had joined
67
3.5
To choose not to take part in something
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4.1
To leave an organization and form a separate group
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4.9
To stop doing a job or role politely
10
6.5
Stop taking part or trying because of problems
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3.0
Officially stop attending a class before it ends
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7.5
To stop being a member of a group or organization
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7.5
Stop taking part because it becomes too difficult
1
6.8
To stop being signed up for a course, program, or school
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4.8
To remove yourself or someone else from a course
Antonyms
How Committed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The ML sense is a domain-specific application of the basic phrasal-verb sense 'drop out' = 'remove or exclude'. A learner who knows 'drop' (to remove/stop including) and 'out' (excluded) can compositionally infer that certain units are being excluded/deactivated, so the meaning is transparently derived from the constituents.
Etymology
Drop out comes from the image of someone literally leaving a group or race — to drop out as if falling out of a line, so it means 'to leave or stop' before finishing.