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truant officer
noun
- a public-school official who investigates unauthorized absences from school.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of truant officer1
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Example Sentences
This is the place we were living that Lee was picked up by the truant officer in the Bronx Zoo.
By this time the truant officer ran over to the group and wanted to know what was wrong.
The boy was safe in the street because no truant officer had the right to arrest him at sight for loitering there in school-hours.
"In the back yard of one of those double-deckers down by the river," answered the Truant Officer.
No reproachful teacher, no truant officer threatening arrest and the Juvenile Court, ever darkened her horizon.
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