out-of-school

1. 1.

   not attending school and therefore free to work

   “opportunities for out-of-school youth”

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Questions about out-of-school

What does out-of-school mean?

out-of-school means "not attending school and therefore free to work".

How many syllables are in out-of-school?

out-of-school has 3 syllables: ou-t-of--school. The stress falls on "ou".

Is out-of-school a common word?

out-of-school is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.