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- noun Plural form of
leaver .
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Examples
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The number of school leavers is expected to plummet over the next 10 years, leaving 70,000 university places unfilled - the equivalent of nearly six universities.
Archive 2008-03-01 Jonathan 2008
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The number of school leavers is expected to plummet over the next 10 years, leaving 70,000 university places unfilled - the equivalent of nearly six universities.
Universities fear imminent student drought Jonathan 2008
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A: No two "leavers" are exactly the same, but some patterns did emerge.
What Does It Mean To Be An 'Ex-Christian'? Josh Fleet 2011
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A: No two "leavers" are exactly the same, but some patterns did emerge.
What Does It Mean To Be An 'Ex-Christian'? Josh Fleet 2011
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These "leavers" aren't dropouts, but they aren't necessarily graduates either.
Justin Snider: Texas' Incredibly Shrinking Dropout Problem 2010
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And these are the four categories into which the vast majority of "leavers" in Texas fall.
Justin Snider: Texas' Incredibly Shrinking Dropout Problem 2010
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Such "leavers" cannot be held against a school, district or state and shouldn't be counted as dropouts.
Justin Snider: Texas' Incredibly Shrinking Dropout Problem 2010
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But here's what is potentially troubling: there were another 61,179 students in the Class of 2009 who were written off as "leavers," and they don't show up in any of these calculations.
Justin Snider: Texas' Incredibly Shrinking Dropout Problem 2010
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Let's be generous and say that fully 95 percent of the students reported as "leavers" really did leave the state system.
Justin Snider: Texas' Incredibly Shrinking Dropout Problem 2010
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They are the "leavers" to the "takers" of what we ave let our society become.
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