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  • 11drop out — ► drop out 1) cease to participate. 2) pursue an alternative lifestyle. Main Entry: ↑drop …

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  • 12drop out — index leave (depart), resign, retire (conclude a career) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 13drop out —   [dt. »herausfallen«], kurzzeitige Unterbrechung des Signals beim Schreiben oder Lesen von Daten von einem optischen oder magnetischen Speichermedium. Es wurden Korrekturverfahren entwickelt, die diese Fehler rechnerisch weitgehend korrigieren… …

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  • 14drop out — verb 1. give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat (Freq. 2) In the second round, the challenger gave up • Syn: ↑give up, ↑fall by the wayside, ↑drop by the wayside, ↑throw in, ↑throw in the towel, ↑ …

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  • 15drop out — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms drop out : present tense I/you/we/they drop out he/she/it drops out present participle dropping out past tense dropped out past participle dropped out 1) to leave something such as an activity, school, or… …

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  • 16Drop-Out — Der Begriff Drop Out von (engl. to drop out „aussetzen“, aber to drop out of something „an etwas nicht mehr teilnehmen oder teilhaben“) bezeichnet: in der Technik das vorübergehendes Versagen einer bestimmten Funktion („Aussetzer“), siehe Drop… …

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  • 17drop out — UK US drop out Phrasal Verb with drop({{}}/drɒp/ verb ( pp ) ► [I] to not do something you were planning to do, or to stop doing something before you have finished: »Some bidders are rumoured to have dropped out because of the cost of putting the …

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  • 18drop out — 1. in. to withdraw from a conventional lifestyle. □ Sometimes I just want to drop out and raise pigs or something. □ Ted dropped out and bought a farm. 2. in. to quit school or some organization. □ I dropped out before I got promoted …

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  • 19drop out — verb Prematurely and voluntarily leave (school, a race, or the like). Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. See Also: drop, drop out,… …

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  • 20drop out — vb to withdraw from conventional society, opt out. The motto of the hippy move ment, coined by Dr Timothy Leary in 1967, was turn on, tune in, and drop out (take drugs and/or become enlightened; make contact with like minded people or the life… …

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