Meaning

2 senses
  1. One who leaves.

    This year's school leavers have excellent grades.

    He's a leaver, not a stayer: he'll never be happy tied down in one place.

    someone who leaves

  2. (Australia, Western)Synonym of schoolie (“a senior student”).

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The head teacher shook hands with each of the school-leavers.

    ruДиректор пожал руку каждому из выпускников.

    deDer Rektor schüttelte jedem Schulabgänger die Hand.

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  2. On the day of the school-leavers' assembly, I was sad and happy at the same time.

    deAn jenem Tage der Schulabschlussfeier war ich traurig und froh zugleich.

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Origin

From leave + -er.

From leave + -er.

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Forms

plural: leavers
Singularleaver
Pluralleavers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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