school-leaver

noun

1. a pupil who is about to leave or has recently left school, esp at the minimum school-leaving age

Other Word Forms

• school-leaving adjective

Example Sentences

Improving diversity at graduate and school-leaver levels was easier because the firm had more control, she said.

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"So all 30 of us had to stay behind for a couple of obnoxious people. This is so unfair. How does this help anyone?" asks one school-leaver.

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The three other promises include more land reform, better housing, and guaranteed jobs, training or education for every school-leaver.

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Javi Onder, an 18-year-old school-leaver with a role in IT, is in her first few months at the Bank where her mother, in the markets and payments division, has worked for 20 years.

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In a role-play back at Sergeant Haney’s recruiting station, your correspondent, posing as an aimless school-leaver, asked what the army could offer him.

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